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I think it should depend on if you can alter the stars without damaging the wings and how much effort you wish to expend.
It is a rather small, and not easily observed variance. I think if you left it like it was, almost everyone would either fail to notice it, or think it trivial on such a beautiful model. And if a malicious rivet counter (as opposed to the benign kind, like me) were to call you on it. You could either just smile wryly and shake your head at human nature or say that when the repainting was done in late 1941, this is the way the stars were applied on this aircraft . . . and I'll bet you could find photographic evidence that it happened, if not on this airplane, then on some other airplane!
Look through photographs of U.S. Navy aircraft in the 1941-early 1942 period, and you find a bewildering array of variations as units tried to comply with changing regs in the heat of imminent and actual war.
Don
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