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A dealership will charge you big bucks to replace a key, to fix a ding/ scratch on your car, to perform a repair, or to get a part for you. However, it COSTS the dealer practically nothing for any of that. They'll CHARGE you $80/ hour for a repair, while paying some chump $12 to do the work. The $200 key cost then $3 (that's not verifiable statement of fact, I'm just sayin').
When you trade your car in, the dings, dents, missing keys, or lack of a radio knob won't matter one half of a shrew shit to them... they'll recondition it in a way that would have cost YOU $1000, but will cost them $70. I've traded in cars with many thousands of dollars worth of damage/ repair required, but the dealership has given me full Blue Book, as though it had no damage.
If the other key holds sentimental value, I say keep the thing... nobody will care, nobody will reduce your trade- in value. And besides, that way, if things go to hell at the dealership, you can still get back in your car and drive it away...
(When I was young and dumb, I was perusing a car lot. They wanted my car key so they could appraise my vehicle. When it was time for me to go home (after not finding any car I wanted), they, oops, sorry, couldn't find my key (it was a cheap- ass used- car salesman tactic to keep me on the lot until I bought one of their cars). I'm not real passive in situations like that, and selected the tactic of yelling, cursing, and raising all manner of hell until they "found" my f'n key. What a miracle! But... woulda been nicer if I'd simply had a spare key on me. Doesn't really apply to Camaro keys, as I don't think anybody will drive away without the expensive Camaro key, but, that's my story, and I'm stickin' to it).
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