If the player had actually been in the game before, how did the scorer track that?
I'd be tempted to say that if you were certain the player had entered the game in, say, the 2nd quarter, that you need to add the player and mark his quarter played. At that point, you are requiring a change to the scorebook, which is what the technical foul is for. It is not a retroactive "T", but rather a correction of a bookkeeping error.
However, if neither the officials nor the scorer are 100% certain he has played, then I'm not directing the book be corrected and we'll correct it later in the game if need be.
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