I don’t know if you’re looking for solutions, but if you Google how to pull apart that centre console for your specific car, it’s usually fairly easy and there’ll be videos showing you how. You could do a reasonable job of painting it or covering it with a material that’s not so shiny.
I wasn’t subbed to either of the communities that the op said this was originally for, and I found kbin whilst searching for a Reddit alternative. I like the whole federation thing, it’s new and interesting, for now at least.