If you don't want the plywood edges to show, you can buy wood veneer edge banding that has hot glue backing. Available at any home improvement store. It simply irons on( or I imagine you could use a heat gun). Once it's all on use a file to remove the extra edges, and it takes stain great. If you look in my past posts I have pictures of a replacement table for our
scamp that I did that with. Came out great