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The brass rivets are on the outside, they do not even come in contact with the heads or jugs.
Those look like the Cometic gaskets for the Twin Cam. The ones for the Evo have the rivet sat closer inside and I can assure you when I tried to fit them they caused clearance issues.
The instructions say to cut the rivets off if they do not clear. I had to do that on my Shovelhead, and they were much close to the head gasket mating area than the ones pictured. I have had zero problems since the rebuild with cut off Cometic rivets.