If you want to sound or appear un-British, pronounce ‘menace’ as /menays/ or /menahs/. This is an incorrect way of pronouncing ‘menace’.

‘Menace’ shares the same pronunciation in the second syllable with surface, solace, preface, palace, and furnace.

‘Menace’ is pronounced /menis/; the /i/ sounds like the /i/ in sit and pit, and the /e/ sounds like the /e/ in egg.

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In other words like menace, surface, solace, preface, palace, and furnace, there is a presence of the short vowel /ɪ/ in all these words, never the diphthong /eɪ/.