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I've been in your shoes before. I had to take a dremel and carefully sand away the portion of the dash (backside) to recess it enough to hold the nut down on the front. I found a way to do this on my installed dash by putting a sanding disk backwards on the the dremel after I pushed the dremel through the hole and then apply a pulling pressure as I sanded away material on the backside.
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