Ask and you shall recieve! (Flip Top Gas cap Adapter)

Hey guys just putting this in here cause I'm curious if anybody else had had this happen to them yet. I already contacted 4mulaSvaliant so I'll also be awaiting his answer as well. So I went to install my flip top cap adapter on my 68 Valiant Signant today. I put it all together got my flip top on there and it sits a ways off the body. I realize there has to be a gap in order to allow for the hinge to open and not scrape but mine just looks outright silly. Here's a couple pictures: