Preventing content author from seeing Role Based Access Control settings

We are in need of a module(s) or process that will allow content authors to choose who sees their content. Specifically, the author should be able to make his content either “Public” or make it viewable and/or editable by specific users (not by user roles). The Content Access module together with the ACL module comes close if only we could prevent the author from seeing the Role Based Access Control settings and just see the User Access Control Lists section available. Are we missing something?