Why wouldn't you deck it? It would be at a machinist anyway, and hardly costs anythings to do.
The port matching to gasket is pretty much pointless, typically the gaskets are a reasonable amount larger than the ports, so you would just be doing this
___/\____ (gasket goes between slashes, makes more sense in my head than on the screen)
Hacking shit up and making it worse with a die grinder is easy, improving the flow characteristics of a port is really hard.