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A brass/bronze bushing could then also be installed.

Cutting and glueing progressively smaller rings of plywood can work too. The piece could be finished in a wood turning lathe.

If somone has access to sand casting facilities, a standard hub could be used for model/mold and castings made relatively cheaply (machining limited to boring the 8 mounting holes). Just tossing ideas about. Still think wood would be an acceptable solution. One of my neighbors has a wood turning...

And make one for the rear too, for those that choose to remove a rear drive axle. It should look like the original rear hub, just made out of wood...

I read a post on the mil-veh list (perhaps it was a PM, not sure) about somebody using wooden ones for freewheeling. My son just took his off (M37) and drove without hubs untill he got lockable ones (to and from school for a year). Rdixiemiller, turn some out of wood and sell them. Will look...

The axle stub is supported by the hub and the wheel turns, the axle doesn't. Take it from there. I know I went overboard on my set, I even pressed in needle bearings in those. They were sold a few years later after I decided that the front wheel drive was more important. Needed it yesterday...