Polyester Lacquer apparently. The correct repair is to take all the old off, and respray with new.... sod that.
The problem with parts from the breakers is that genuine wooden dash parts are really expensive, and becasue it's wood it'll never match exactly unless I replace the lot. And that makes it cost even more! I like the colour of the wood on my dash. It's a kind of golden yellow rather than the darker colour you tend to see more often.
Repair kits are available though, and there's a few guys doing repairs on YouTube.... I'll have to try one of them and see what we see.