Thanks! ..and to remove that piece of trim I found it was necessary to pull the sides of the lower storage console away from the console.
So the steps to remove cubby are
1. Side trims pulled away, not totally off but just the front half under the cubby
2. Pull that little piece of trim shown above
3. Pull cubby down, and off
Install is reverse order.
The reason I took cubby off was so I could operate on it by adding another cubby to it. So now I have a double decker cubby. The additional one was made from a $5 plastic bin from the hardware store, it happened to be lined with an antislip mat moulded in. I think its meant for keeping misc articles in a drawer organized.
But I cut away one of the sides to make the box into a shelf, and now have a little cubby shelf under the original cubby for more stuff. Call it a cubby buddy, or a double cubby... but not a cubby cubby because that implies nesting cubby with cubby - not the case here.
The result of doing this extends the center stack down more but you can still fit stuff under that in the yacht floor area. A side effect of having extended the cubby is there's no way to fit that little piece of trim back on underneath the cubby, so I just left it off for good. The clips on the cubby along are strong enough to hold whatever you might put in there, even a solid block of metal.
For service, the double cubby just pulls down and out as one unit to get access to the diagnostic cables. And is now a lot easier and faster to get off amd put back on with that trim bit missing.