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FYI: any misalignment of that hole will result in that brace attempting to misalign your forks.
Think about this. The fork tubes are supposed to be parallel. The lowers ride up and down on the uppers and have bushings and seals for low friction movement. If you get this brace even slightly wrong (we're talking small numbers of thousandths of an inch here, there's very very little allowable slop in fork bushings) you're going to add a ton of friction to the motion of your fork, potentially even binding it up. It all just depends on how far off your hole is. These aren't 40 year old forks that had slop in them in the first place.
As someone who used to run a fork brace... it doesn't really make that much difference for a street rider, it adds friction if it's not 1000% perfect, and you're going to be better to buy one that's purpose built for your bike if you absolutely are intent on ignoring us and still want one.
You're better off spending the $$$ (remember that your hours of labor are worth something, how much is up to you) on emulators to make the suspension better, rather than attempting to hack a fork brace up for negligible benefit or likely even causing more problems than anything.
If you still want to go through with this... find a local machine shop and let them do it. Take the forks in, let them take measurements, and then they can make sure that the hole is enlarged without making an eccentric hole and/or misaligned hole and/or the wrong diameter hole and/or a tapered hole. It has to be right.
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