There are specific Heli-coils for that application. Yer right...ain't much meat there to start with. There are also some oversized, self-tapping bolts for caliper mounting. Might check with your local NAPA store first, and see what they have available.
Heil-coils normally come with the correct taps, installation tool, and instructions. If you can drill/tap a straight hole, it's not too complicated.
btw....we see cars with the caliper bolts stripped out all the time these days. In a lot of cases, the bolt is gone completely. When the car is moving, and you hit the brakes, the caliper can swivel up and lock onto the wheel. Not a good thing. I wouldn't blame the guys that worked on it before, tho they may have overtightened it...it would eventually happen anyway. As you noted, there just ain't a lot of metal there to hold the threads...a by-product of weight reduction in all vehicles....
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