318 with Carter 2-bbl fuel leak through throttle shaft after hot engine shut-down

This carb was billed as being for 318 and slant-6

Seller was FOS.

I don't really know if back in the day (1977 ?) there was such a carb for both the slant and the 318. Or maybe same carb just jetted differently.

Physically different carbs. You can bolt the one onto the other, but there's enough stuff that's different that it's far from optimal. Easier to adapt a 273-318 BBD to a 225 than to go the other direction.

But all that aside, I don't think it should be leaking through the throttle shaft (seems only the driver side) during hot-soak engine shut-down / cool off. ?

Means the carburetor is percolating (boiling) after shutdown, and the throttle shaft bushings are worn or, in the case of thie "100% NEW NEW NEW NEW!" Chinese knockoff of a Carter BBD, it means you are seeing the poor quality of these things.

What year is your car?

And why are you running high-test gasoline? There's no advantage to it in a stock or near-stock 318; it's purely a money-waste.