Thanks for your thoughts, napfkuchen. To each their own concerning appearance, I imagine. I rather like the look of exposed hardware, but that's me. Concerning mounting tape; I considered it early in my design process, but ultimately decided mounting with hardware was the better path for a couple of reasons. Mounting tape is a booger to undo should I want to remove later. Additionally, I'd still have to stand the faceplate off the front to avoid interference with top cover. I think that if concealed mounting was the goal, I'd embed some threaded inserts in backside of faceplate and either screw from inside or, more likely, install studs into inserts.
I suppose I look at this from the perspective of bulk production and subsequent installation by end user. It's the way my mind works. After reading commentary on some of the Buckeye threads, I got the feeling some owners would like "dress up" options for their gear. That's where my thought process started, FWIW.