fly P4P+ safely without this "plate" temporarily...?

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DJI sent me replacement P4P+ camera-gimbal-shell.
I am to take out old, put in new, return old.
P4P-CablePlate.jpg This is the "plate" about 1 3/8ths inch x 3/16ths inch
that hold camera cable in place under hood-shell. Old camera
cable plug-in took effort to remove & new cable plugged in
firmly & seems to get help from cable doubling upon itself.
Problem: lost both tiny screws for pictured plate that
reinforces cable plug -- can I fly "lightly" as in just up to take
still shots & then down to land without this plate, while I wait
for DJI to send several replacement screws...? Am I violating
any kind of warranty prohibition? Can I easily find exact same
screws locally in hardware store? Oversized image of plate:

P4P-CablePlate.jpg
 
You can fly with out the plate and the worse case if it pops off will be you'll lose video feed and vision sensor will go crazy. I had this happen to me as I forgot to secure the gimbal. I had the bird at 100ft and it thought it was on the ground and down throttle did nothing!! Had to disable all sensors in the Go app and then I was able to land it...a little scary!!

The DJI P4 screw set comes with M16-12, which fit, but are a little shorter than the originals. Screw set doesn't have the exact matching screw. Maybe your local DJI shop has a P4 screw set.

Here's the difference
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