Custom Field (Check Box) Added to Publish Box? Possible?

I’m wanting to add a checkbox (custom field) into the publish box to make identifying if a post is featured or not intuitive at publish time.

I’m hoping there is a hook that I can add the custom field into the publish box, or I guess the alternative is to remove the meta-box, and then recreate it by combining my code with core code…

Anyone have some experience or thoughts on adding info to the existing publish box?

Thanks

Matt