Pat, thanks. I'm trying to stay with a very clean billet look at present. The dash is already painted so welding in a plate is not possible. I keep thinking there must be a chrome or polished alum. plate of some sort that would add, not detract. I guess I could have someone turn a chunk of alum. on a lathe... I think I need something like those cheap chrome rings you put on your under sink water pipe to hide the hole in the sheetrock where the water line comes through. BUT, smaller and not cheap like those... Keep briainstormin!