if you put a bolt thru the witness hole, what happens to the small post in the middle of the locking screw of the grip? are you going to cut it off, not tighten the locking screw all the way (it'll be too loose) or just leave it off the grip?
i encountered the same thing when putting a KAC grip on my SIR - it has a center channel too, so the post has nothing to engage. i cut a couple of short (about 1") pieces of plastic tie-straps which just happened to be the right size to lay in between the cross rails. knowing where i wanted the grip to be centered, i put the two pieces of plastic on the crossrails, then slid the grip over them, tightening the locking screw so that the post was now between them. the tie straps on either side of the post prevent it from sliding forward and aft.
that's my fix until the tangodown vertical grip comes out in about a month to replace the KAC ones that i have.
cheers,
MM