broken tabs on seat pan

I am building a cafe seat for my 77 KZ1000. The seat pan that I bought has several tabs broken off. The tabs are what you hook the cover onto. I've heard of using pop rivets to hold the cover on. Has anyone here used that method or know of a better way?

i have two seats that were re covered and they used pop rivits.

leon

You might want to take a look at this. These are replacemnt strips that add the tabs.