Solder is very soft, and it also will help the screw get a better hold of the wood.
From the dailyherald.com
Today, flip chip is a well established technology and collapsed soft solder connections are used in the vast majority of assemblies.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Mellis shows me how to melt the soft metal solder onto the circuit board he designed and how to use the metal to attach resistors and capacitors about the size of a few grains of salt.