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After some playing with this problem, I think I've found a solution.

Let $U$ be an orthonormal basis of the range of $I-\Pi$, that is, $[Q,U]$ is a square orthogonal matrix such that $U^TQ=0$ and $I-\Pi=UU^T$. Then $$ \begin{split} K&=\max_v\frac{v^T(I-\Pi)v}{v^T(I-\Pi)M(I-\Pi)v}=\max_v\frac{v^TUU^Tv}{v^TUU^TM^{-1}UU^Tv} =\max_v\frac{v^T(U^TM^{-1}U)^{-1}v}{v^Tv}\\ &=\max_v\frac{v^T(U^TM^{-1}U)^{-1}U^TM^{-1}U(U^TM^{-1}U)^{-1}v}{v^Tv}\\ &=\max_v\frac{v^TU^TU(U^TM^{-1}U)^{-1}U^TM^{-1}MM^{-1}U(U^TM^{-1}U)^{-1}U^TUv}{v^TU^TUv}\\ &=\max_{v\in\mathcal{R}(I-\Pi)}\frac{v^T[U(U^TM^{-1}U)^{-1}U^TM^{-1}]M[M^{-1}U(U^TM^{-1}U)^{-1}U^T]v}{v^Tv}. \end{split} $$ What remains to show is that $$\tag{1}I-\tilde{\Pi}=I-Q(Q^TMQ)^{-1}Q^T\quad\text{and}\quad\Phi=M^{-1}U(U^TM^{-1}U)^{-1}U^T$$ are equal. It is easy to show that the square matrix $[U,MQ]$ is nonsingular. So $I-\Pi=\Phi$ if and only if $[U,MQ]^T(I-\Pi-\Phi)=0$. But this is easy to verify using $U^TQ=0$ and the expressions in (1).