A-body armrest - stripped threads in door’s sheet metal

Why not just cut out 2 rectangles the correct size and location for the clips you bought, (like in the photo of my post with the 67 dart door)

Simple, no welding, permanent, repairable by replacing the clips in the future.
That's what I would do my 70 duster has one original door & one 71. So 70 has clips one does not. At present I don't have a problem but someday I might. There are other penny pinching differences between years. The duster nameplate on the painted part of the door in 70 they were held on with counter sink oval top sheet metal screws, 71 had round holes with sheet metal spring clips that grab plastic posts on emblem.