Stepped piston hitting head, options and advice needed.

So you're saying that that dome/step piston had less compression than a Standard Step/dished piston????? Im still missing something here
The D shaped dish in this particular piston (KB356) is 25 cc's and the quench pad is about 1.5 cc's giving a net volume increase of 23.5 cc relative to the compression height of the piston. The same piston with the quench pad milled off from the factory is the KB416, which has the 25 cc dish volume.