advice on styrene wraps to add rivet detail

[nachoman]

How about Super Glue? The gel, not the liquid.
When I did the GERN Flux Roaster, I used the gel type CA glue, to encase the printer cartridges in .020" styrene.

That is a good suggestion. My experience with super glues is that after a few years, the bonds lose strength. On a surface that has a large area (such as a rivet overlay) this may not be an issue. But, if you are going to go the super glue route, you might as well use thin brass for the overlay. Brass makes cleaner rivets and is thinner. Gluing thin brass to plastic with super glue would be no less strong than gluing plastic to plastic