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I have a custom white object with black stroke, like this:
I want to cut a hole into that, so I create an object like this:
If I do Minus Front from the pathfinder, I get this:
But I don't want the stroke on the circle in the middle. How can I do that?
I want it to look like this:
Alternative to @Ilan's method would be to add a secondary shape for the black outline. This way you can alter the color boxes and there are holes in the top shape so you don't have to alter the color for multiple objects.
Just copy the outer shape and Edit > paste in Front then apply a black stroke and no fill. You can then Group it with the white shape to move them as one object.
In any event, if you don't want strokes on the inner circles/holes you'll need at least one other object.
As I commented you cannot make a hole in a way you try (because of a stroke).
But actually, this picture does not imply any compound shape - there are just regular ones layered one upon another:
I did it in a minute:
These are the layers:
(made on the retina, thus the size was doubled - sorry about that)
