Firstly this is a do it at your own risk, I do not advocate it nor suggest it, just what I found (that should cover the legalese part)

I picked up one the 116s at a Cabella Sale for a test chassis. My definition of that is the 3 spare barrels I have (sort of) and maybe another one down the road.

Unfortunately it has the bottom bolt release (had). Pretty cheap plastic stuff down there and the trigger guard was cracked when I got it (didn't care, its been replaced with an after market as the Bottom Release Trigger and the stock I got do not match anyway)

While this is an opinion and not a fact, I feel the solid bottom stocks give more rigidity (they might and it might not make any deferens) so the goal was to get a solid bottom (blind magazine) stock, plug it with a wood block and see if I could get the top bolt release to work.

I got a Boyds stock in top bolt release style with a blind magazine.

With a great deal of "buyer be ware" yes it can.

I bent mine and used no heat. Heat may be better, I am more try as low a level force that does no harm. I may experiment with the bottom release sear and see how heat works with it. I could also be wrong, heat may make it go better and less force and no harm, just my take.

It is extremely strong steel as you would expect, while it may be slam dunk obvious to the metal guys, I thought the sear part might be heat treated and the rest not. It feels like the whole thing is heat treated and does not bend readily.

Also hard to get leverage on the part you need to bend.

The key is the pin only goes through the first two sets of holes in the sear and bending the outer part with the bolt release lever on it does not
affect that as its past the pin hole that needs to line up.

At quitting point last night its still dragging the edge of the receiver a bit, full bolt cycle resets trigger fine, opening bolt and closing is more iffy.

I am going to work on it a bit more. With it installed I think I can get the leverage to bend it out a bit more.

I got the sear from Savage, they wanted an SN and I used the SN from one of my top bolt release guns.

I don't know what they would do if you just ordered it by PN with no gun to pin it to. Seemed the easiest and worked.