Rick, if it really bothers you, you can take some stiff poster board and make a template/mask in the shape of the top, leaving a cut out area the size and shape of the original pickguard. Then keep the guitar on a stand out in a room where it won't be hit by direct sunlight, and whenever the guitar isn't in use leave that poster board mask in place. Eventually the lighter area where the pickguard used to be will catch up to the same shade as the rest of the top.
It'll take a while, though, months at the very least.
Sorry there isn't any fast and easy remedy I can recommend.
whm
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