creative ideas?

[zen]

check out the attached. i would like some ideas from you guys. i relocated the door release function to the RS pull strap when i thought i had uncut door panels. found out after doing all this that my door panels had been precut for the standard door release. i have the regular door handle in place now (which does nothing) to cover up the hole, but am trying to think of a creative way to eliminate the door handles.

my best thought so far is to make some sort of stand-off so i have a place to hang a cell phone or two-way radio for the caravans. i have zero places for that now. so thought was to fill the hole from the back with a c/f patch, on the front use a 10mm or so nylon spacer at each of the 4 corners and then some sort of plate (c/f or billet) slightly larger than the door handle so the patch isn't visible too much behind it.

any other ideas?