The top step of a folding step stool we’ve been (ab)using forever finally wore out, mostly because it was covered in vinyl and intended as a seat. We always used it as a step, despite knowing you should never stand on the top rung of a ladder: “Do not stand on or above this level”.
I tossed the ripped vinyl and warped particle board, cut a random chunk of wood-textured paneling (which Came With The House™) to fit, match-drilled four holes, and it looks OK:
The original seat / step / whatever used press-fit studs with a flat flange covered by the vinyl, but I just slammed 10-32 tee nuts into the paneling:
That’s a ring of low-strength threadlock around the inside of the nut; I do not expect the screws to come out ever again.
I cut the screws to length with a Dremel cutoff wheel using a slightly shortened tee nut as a fixture:
Not visible: the vacuum hose clamped to the vise sucking up all the abrasive + metal dust.
Good for an hour of Quality Shop Time™ on a cold winter morning!
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 
Double-check your inventory of Tee-nuts. They might be 10-24, not 10-32.
IIRC, I got a bag of 10-32 tee nuts to match the Sherline’s tooling. So far, of course, I’ve only used them for other projects.