The version I just uploaded should now do this correctly, replacing iron plates in the small electric motor recipe with nickel instead of clobbering the single cylinder engine recipe. You'll need to rebuild your motor/SCE production if you started a save using 1.0.0.
The new version also includes more compatibility things that will be indispensable later on: nickel landfill to prevent core fragment processing from backing up, the ability to send nickel and invar in delivery cannons, Krastorio enrichment and SE pyrosmelting for nickel ore, invar instead of steel in heat shielding and probably some other things I'm forgetting right now.