This would be a job requiring a very dextrous and skilled craftsperson. Veneer is very thin, there's near zero material to sand out. But somehow, you'd have to have a clean, unsealed, & stainable wood surface if you're going to retouch. You can strip the old finish off, but that has a host of different problems and challenges. Assuming you can get to bare wood, you then have to be able to mix and apply the stain to match. But the stained wood and bare wood are going to oxidize and change colors again and they won't match in the future. In short, leave it alone. It's not cost effective or likely to turn out as nicely finished as you'd hope. However, maple changes color much faster on exposure to light than you might think. I've refinished several maple tables and they all started to turn darker within days of the finishing work when left in a reasonably well lit location that received sunlight.
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