If you only want it to look like you have a Hurst shifter, then cut your stock handle off just below where it comes out of the shifter boot and drill two holes and bolt a Hurst handle to it.

The tighter Hurst tower won't be much improvement if you keep the sloppy factory linkage.

A little hint, generally speaking, a buck saved on a shortcut today will, usually, end up costing you two bucks tomorrow.