72 C20 intake gasket

[Nomadicflyer]

What say you all, push on or stop to burnish these old scuff marks? I'm changing the intake gaskets on the 350, due to high oil consumption. High, as in a quart per 100 miles, with no visible effect as to where. At highway power. Around town, she's an angel.

Anyway, prior repair revealed under the old intake gaskets, where someone really went after a stuck gasket with a sledge hammer and chisel! Fairly deep gouges and scrapes. Do I press on, put the new gaskets on? I had planned on using gray RTV on the intake manifold side, to tack the gasket in. Maybe I should tack it to the block, to fill in these scratches, instead? What say you all, oracle's of the old?

Thanks!