I just went through this process a little while back with an early 3000 "Nasty Boy Modified" that I am building. I was analyzing the driver's foot-well situation and what to use. Based upon my experience as a racer - I know what really works. So, I decided to use racer's Aluminized Heat Barrier Cloth. It's 40" wide by 040" thick and sells for $28.79 per foot from Pegasus Auto Racing Supplies. It ain't cheap but it really works. You don't have to do the whole car...only the driver's footwell and under the driver's seat. The passenger doesn't cook unless heat comes through the tunnel.
The more I analyzed the situation though, the more I came to realize that no matter what I did, using the original steel tunnel with that intermediate steel piece, was only going to let heat into the cockpit. Even with using that expensive heat barrier cloth, there are too many gaps for hot air to get into the cockpit. It was not a good design.
So, I decided to use a BJ8 fiberglass tunnel. It is a much better design that totally eliminates that cheesy intermediate piece. Fortunately, I already had an extra fiberglass tunnel, so I bought a Kilmartin tunnel trim kit from British Car Specialists to convert the early 3000 to accept the one-piece BJ8 fiberglass tunnel. Problem solved!