I'd use a bit o house rulin on this one.
in every book I've ever read where some one made aomthing out of mithril it was a master peice simply because the smith working it has to be a master to work mithril to begin with.
the point about armor feats needed to wear mithril plate goes like this.
if a druid can get a suit of ironwood plate they can wear it, but they must leard to deal with the extra layer of stuff, so they need the feat. same fors for the extra light mithril plate. though it might be waferthin and featherlight its still a whole lot of metal to get use to wearing.
hope that helps.