It seems a shame to cut a perfectly good but hatchless roof. Can you get anyone in your area (shipping would be a killer) to trade a reasonable hatch type roof for your hatchless one. This would give you the appropriate inner reinforcements for the hatch type roof and also locate the hatch for you. This should balance out having to smooth out some smaller bumps. I haven't seen many spare hatch rings, mounting reinforcements, inner padded cushions or tapered wood spacers floating around, but there must be some available you could borrow as a pattern. Most of the parts are either flat or rod stock welded together to make up the hatch ring so if you can only borrow one it would be possible to fabricate a reasonable facsimilie.
For the starter access cover, are you talking about the piece of floor plate over the starter motor or the rim that holds the boot around the starter lever in place?
The floor panel is just tread plate with an "L" shaped angle on the face nearest the engine to help keep the doghouse in place and I think it also has an anchor point for the doghouse welded to the upper face. Again, a part you can fabricate if you have a pattern.
If you are looking for the part that anchors the starter lever boot - Brian Asbury had some of these available NOS, but you could also fabricate one from plain sheet steel if you have a pattern.
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