The badge number indicates how many units Honda had made, that's for sure!
The reason why your vin is not matching with your badge is that JDM spec chassis # is not starting from Jxxxxxxx.
All JDM spec FL5 chassis # start with FL5-1xxxxx. And there is Jdm spec chassis # with 1004xxx shown on...
A person who works for Honda shared it on FB. And it looks like his number is legit.
The highest number reported on the internet is 8549 a month ago, and he posted this set of data today.
A guy who work in Honda shared it on a FB page, and I think it lines up of what we found so far. The highest reported badge number was 8549 a month ago.