The fact is there is a significant gap and that's how it gets filled, whether you will admit it or not.

I have had plenty of these plates with that twist in them around the bolt hole from cars where the rubber beam mounts deteriorate and the plate bounces as a result.

From memory you are a hgv mechanic I hope you don't have the same attitude and make the same obvious bodges when you send fully loaded wagons out onto the highway.