Google Play allows the ability to reset your signing cert for uploading now with them optionally managing the release certs. You contact them with new certificate in case you lose yours if you opt into this feature.
I was testing this reset process - only took 1 day to get a reply from them. Here is what they said based on a pem generated with the steps listed in the docs here https://www.defold.com/manuals/android/
$ openssl genrsa -out key.pem 1024
$ openssl req -new -key key.pem -out request.pem
$ openssl x509 -req -days 9999 -in request.pem -signkey key.pem -out certificate.pem
$ openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -outform DER -in key.pem -inform PEM -out key.pk8 -nocrypt
I think just changing the 1024 to 2048 in the instructions would be enough?