I believe the conclusion was the top-grip screws started somewhere during Dagobah which was the last set of scenes to be filmed for ESB. There’s no indication or proof they were there any earlier than that (ie, the rest of the movie).
So, unless you’re making a specific ESB-dagobah variant or are going for the SRS saber, I’d leave the top-grip screws out for now.
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