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Wood glue in the hole first, as many cut-down toothpicks as you can get in tightly, then put the screw and button back straight away. It's much better to put the screw in immediately with the glue wet - that way you will compress the wood fibres and glue around the remains of the old thread, which will then set into a cast-in thread. If you let it dry and drill you're just threading the screw into the toothpicks and dried glue, which are fairly weak.
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Eventually you may find it will get weak again at which point you can decide whether to repeat the process or fit a small dowel in there.
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The interesting result was that the 'bodge' method of packing with toothpicks and putting the screw in with the glue wet was the strongest, and the 'proper' method of drilling the hole out, dowelling and redrilling was the weakest. The toothpicks/dried glue method was somewhere in the middle.
Not very scientific since I only did it once, but the difference was enough to convince me that the easiest and quickest way was also the best way.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson