Should I be concerned with this?
This is the Tuttle head on my brand new never used 85cm aluminium mast
(no prizes for guessing which very popular brand)
When I was assembling it I found the rear barrel nut was loose so I tapped the plastic Tuttle spacer off and found they'd drilled a 6.5mm hole in that part of the mast which was only 5.5mm thus breaching the sides and severely weakening the structure where the rear 6mm Tuttle screw attaches to the board.
I realise the front screw takes most of the impact, but this has me a bit worried......

Wouldn't want to overtighten the rear screw as it's all very flimsy.