An extra hood from marketplace or wherever would probably be $100 or less when found, and then you could do whatever you pleased
and not really care.....cut a hole wherever needed and/or put the tallest scoop or bulge you can stand that will cover anything in the future.

Camera match the white or just paint the hood organisol black, maybe another $200-300 for materials, and then
you can do whatever you need to do. Maybe go first class and have it dipped to save labor stripping it.
Maybe chop some structure out of it for weight saving.

There are a few puzzles, and I feel hood clearance is the easiest puzzle to eliminate....create plenty of hood clearance (you have friends that can help), that will
accommodate whatever induction/nitrous plate (or go to a fogger/direct)/carb or throttle body bonnet
for a blower you want to use, and set yourself up for the future. If it ever goes back to stock then put the other hood on.

(and this is the downward spiral of how we end up with extra hoods laying around, and end up doing bodywork when we wanted to do an engine).

If you go low deck, then could have gone with raised exhaust port heads instead of standard, especially if going the custom header route, and will be limited to
about two indy intake manifolds. It's a good option, but is it practical? Don't know. Don't know how your headers would fit with low deck and standard exhaust port height.

Brainstorming, bench racing and spitballing is fun.