Right you can take the badge off as described above, the you put a piece of masking tape over over the holes and cut the holes out of the masking tape with a sharp knife, grab a few 1ps and super glue them on the inside of the boot covering the holes, then use a little bit of filla being careful not to over fill the holes you want the filla sitting a little bit below the surface so you can build the rest of it up with a few layers of paint allowing it to dry between layers then when it is finally dry go over it with some coloured t-cut and voila!!
Well it worked fine on my last escort you couldnt even see where they were!
smokey