What's your favourite guitar? Are there more Gibson or Fender guys? (Or sth else?)

I wanted to install this push-pull potentiometer in my Squire Telecaster. Now that I was actually performing the operation, I realized that its threaded shaft is too wide to fit through the hole where the original one is screwed into. See the attached picture to see the plate that the dials are mounted to on this guitar.

I guess I could widen the hole in the plate with a drill, but I wonder if this is a bad idea. I'm not planning to sell the guitar, but maybe I'm missing something here (like before with the wrong axle diameter 🙄). Thoughts?

I've gotten myself a pair of Deathbucker pickups , planning to put them on a Squire Telecaster for having a relatively low priced metal work horse. Now wonder what potentiometers go well along with them. 250/500K? And am I to replace my tone pots as well?