Drilling a hole in carbon fiber handguard

[tackdriver]

I have a 24" bull barrel grendel and sometime back I removed the aluminium free float tube and replaced it with s carbon fiber tube to shed some weight. I picked up a Versa pod from a hoarder member a couple months ago and now I want to mount it to this rifle.

My question is , is this material going to splinter like crazy ? Does anyone have a proven method?
I was thinking of using a fairly aggressive ( ubber sticky) tape and drilling a tiny hole and gradually increasing bit size until I reached proper size. I am not of the properties of this material, should I be drilling slowly ( like metal) or high speed ?

Any input will be appreciated!