I'm not so sure the buttplate stands proud because the wood was cut.
Why cut wood out just to fit in a spacer to replace the wood you cut out?
I think the spacer was added and thanks to possibly heat and/or many decades of getting used to it, the buttplate took a new shape and doesn't want to go back to where it started life. It's like the Fonz said, "There's no going home again..."
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