Nice try, but I’m afraid not. The active voice is “Someone cut a hole in the book”, while the passive would be “a hole was cut in the book (by someone)”. If an active voice sentence has a direct object, then we cannot take the object of a preposition and use it as the subject of a passive voice sentence.

Maybe this: Someone cut a hole in the book.

“Cut a hole in a book” is perfectly correct English. It sounds unnatural to David because it's just not clear how or why one would actually perform that action. Perhaps with a jigsaw. I just teach languages; my performance in wood-shop was not good. David’s idea to use the passive causative (“The book had a hole cut into it by someone”) is good, but it still doesn’t solve the problem of how someone would actually cut a hole in a book, and it seems a bit unnatural to use a causative, given that the book is inanimate. Also, it would be ambiguous, as it could also be analyzed as a simple description of a past state, rather than than a dynamic action.

1. We wouldn’t say “cut a hole in a book” 2. In addition to the other two alternatives, you could say “The book had a hole cut into it by someone.”