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It's not that the system is inefficient, it's just inefficient for how you want to use it. If you were a military, ordering enough of these to support their 100,000 FMTVs, it works as designed. If these lug nuts aren't used on any (or many) other commercial vehicles, the commercial supply...

Don't take it personally. You're getting a very unique truck, but with it comes unique problems.

Maybe, or maybe you ordered them right when they were in another run of fulfilling the government contract. Or, sometimes the rules and laws change around what kind of military hardware can be sold to civilians (that seems to always have politician's panties in a bunch). I work on the supply...

It may be helpful to understand some context around this. If these parts are military specific, and often even if they are "Commercial Off the Shelf" (COtS) products they will be a special version to meet military specifications (e.g. manufacturing traceability, coating quality, part number...

There is also a 3-piece run flat beadlock that you bolt together inside the tire.

Haha, that's @Suprman 's post.

You could make that two parts, if you wanted... the plate, and a lathed post that screws to the plate. But it would probably be made with a CNC mill anyway, so the groove wouldn't be a problem either way.

If you didn't want to permanently modify the rim, you could also design a plate that bolts on exactly the same way that the original valve assembly did. It would use the two tapped bolt holes, and seal to the air port hole the same way as the valve (o-ring?).