On Debian Buster the file to edit is:
/usr/share/modsecurity-crs/rules/REQUEST-901-INITIALIZATION.conf
searchSearch for: setvar:'tx.allowed_methods=
At roughly line 163... edit, edit the line so that it includes the methods you need to accept eg:
setvar:'tx.allowed_methods=DELETE GET HEAD POST PUT OPTIONS'"
save the file then restart apache: service apache2 restart
acn you are done!
service apache2 restart