Definitely don't replace the rivets... but don't keep making the mistake.
My problem with photos is that I can rarely tell the severity of the problem. When anodizing scuffs and gets shiney with pressure it can sometimes look like a cut and such. My rule of thumb is that if you can feel the 'mark' with your fingernail, something is wrong.
If it is something that you feel, but just barely, put the set into a drill/drill press, use 320 sand paper and an eraser and just polish the outside edge. Then follow with 600 sandpaper to polish. Try again.
If that does not solve it replace the set.
It could be the set was mismarked and is not a 'universal' set, but rather another rivet geometry. Universal sets have a small flat at the very center and a tangent radius out from there. Other sets are just radiused and should not be used on 470 rivets.
It could also be that the set was machined incorrectly. Most machining operations can be measured quite easily. The diameter can be adjusted. In the cup set there is really nothing to measure. We rarely make cup sets in-house, but we have in the past, and do inspect them. It's rather empirical by taking a rivet and feeling the side to side play, combined with looking at the tangency of radiuses as they flow from the center to the OD of the part.
Finally Martin Aircraft just went out of business. They were our source and the source for at least two other popular tool vendors. In the six months prior to folding, they had many internal issues which we saw manifest in products. The sets shown in the photo are not made by them, but there are likely hundreds of Martin sets out in the field from this time frame. We have a bag of them that were pulled during inspection (and not returned before the fold... ugh).
Hope this helps with your evaluations,
Mike
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