I tried position a lot with integers to no effect however I didn’t try decimals. Anyways, I think I found a better solution…thank you for the input though, it is appreciated.
I ended up going with a plugin, even though I always prefer to hard code something myself when possible. This case just seemed too wonky to rely on hand coding it.
For those looking an easy solution, this plugin worked great out of the box and took less than two minutes to learn and configure:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-menu-editor/
