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The top of the steerer tube should be slightly recessed in the stems clamp, by a couple of mm. As long as you have a recess not exceeding 5mm you should be ok. I'm sure stems don't differ by that ammount in the clamp height anyway.
Can you not get the exact same stem but shorter? What stem is it?