Ah, heat is out of the question due to the rubber in that area. You know what, after all my efforts and all you guys kind help and advice I'm throwing in the towel on this. I'll just sell the FP9500c in its original form and use the FP8500c as is, I doubt I'll need to adjust the pedal board height anyway to be honest and it's height is about the same, by default, as what I had the 9500 set to anyway.
Thanks again, so much guys.