There are wear scratches on the column - I’m trying tape around it
I would be very wary of applying tape to it. The pillars are necessarily a close fit and the tape will probably wrinkle off and could become entangled inside the seat . It could then jam things up altogether. Scratches on the pillars are common. Lubrication is the best approach; even a short squirt of wd40 down the hole may help the squeak.
