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I don't think it's possible because we have to remember that LMP2 was given a BHP hike (from 450 to 600) to try and mitigate traffic squables between LMP2s and GTs by giving the LMP2s more straightaway speed.
LMP2s already are making the same power that the hybrid LMP1s are making on engine power alone (when the hybrid systems peter out they're left with about 600bhp). And LMP1s have to lift and coast due to fuel consumption regs. LMP2s don't as they still use air restrictors.
Also, even LMP2s are more advanced in technology than GTEs are. Even if the Ford GT has a carbon tub and inboard pushrod suspension with torsion bar springs, that's about all it has in common with a modern LMP car (and LMPs have had that stuff since the Bentley Speed 8 family dating back to late 2000, and the Jaguar XJR-14/Joest TWR Porsche WSCs had torsion bar pushrod suspension as well before that).
The prototypes are still much lighter, make much more downforce and on a dry track still make more mechanical grip in all but the slowest of corners (the GTE's weight does give them better low speed road holding, especially in the wet).
For the scenario for GT cars to compete head to head with LMPs, they would in essence have to become prototypes themselves. At which point I have to ask, "why not just build a prototype?"
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