This is not the way I'd go at the job. I don't see how any of your thoughts could possibly be better than properly spliced eyes. What you've proposed has all the hard work disadvantages of the rig as designed with the additional disadvantages of adding fittings to fail.
If you are really afraid of learning how to splice or hiring a good rigger to do it, you could band the mast and hang the stays on staylock or norseman terminals from the bands. It's dirt simple to make either bronze or black iron bands in two halves that bolt together and compression fit on the mast. You can hang shrouds from the connecting bolts and if you have more in the same general place, weld on a tab.
G'luck
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