New to Acer and it's community and needing some advice

I bought my first Acer. My Gateway Laptop served me well for 5 years, one of which was Tikrit, Iraq serving OIF. She made it through sand storms and temps that would melt my face off. I've always heard such good news about Acer so I decided when my Gateway gave I would buy Acer. And so I now have an Acer V5-5557M touch screen laptop. I love it, its fast, and the turbo boost technology is truly innovative and intrigues me. I don't really like how most speed processor test will only test up to 2.1Ghz (default specs) when turbo boost is supposed to allow up to 3.1Ghz. Its not until I stress the processor can I see it reach about 2.8 or so. I like the turbo feature, wish I could physically see settings with something software based or through BIOS; I like it either way, though. With that said, my question here is how to I remove the panel that holds the keyboard in place? I ask this because I want to mod the white backlight with tented colors. Out of curiosity, hoping it would be rather easy, I attempted to pry it from either of the 4 sides (the panel is literally the entirety of the laptop, one big panel starting just under the screen all the way down to under the touchpad. But trying to pull it up with something flat only showed me that it would be super easy to damage the panel, it is thin and flimsy, attempting to pry it up only chipped the paint just a little and barely lifed up the panel just where the pryer was under the aluminum. So I bent the panel back down into place to prevent any further place in hopes someone would know the proper way to pull it off. I am a Google Ninja, but I simply could not find information on this anywhere out there in internet land. Any one know how I might approach this?

Thanks a lot,

James H.