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If you were upgrading the pickups in a budget bass, most pickup makers furnish good quality steel screws and springs, rubber tubing or cavity floor pads as appropriate.
Seriously, though, +1 on your list
That way you will retain the option to suspend the pickup from a pickguard in the future should you so wish...
Set the height using the screw against the body cavity ( this makes sense in the next step ). which is a bit tricky with strings on.
When you have the height set, you have to somehow mark the position, use a pickup ring as a guide, drill a couple of small pilot holes, which could be something like 1.5 mm, and are usually centred in the pickup rout, and then as the screw is driven into the wood, it will turn in the pickup foot, preserving the height. Add some springs under the pickup foot, if it bothers you that the only thing holding the pickup up is the threads on the feet.
It isn't as good as having the feet of the pickup at exactly the right height to be in direct contact, but I have done it a few times with success.