It may help to think about the reverse process : the capture of a free electron by a $\ce{He+}$ ion to form $\ce{He}$. When this free electron is still far, it is intuitive that the attractive force between it and the two protons is indeed electrically shielded by the electron that is already circling the nucleus : it is attracted by the $+2$ charge and repelled by the $-1$ charge. (We will ignore magnetic effects, which are typically much smaller)
If there was no shielding, then the second electron would feel the entire $Z=2$ charge and settle at a radius of $r=\frac{1}{2}$ of the Bohr radius, just like the first electron. Its ionization potential would be $\displaystyle\frac{Z}{r}=4$ times that of hydrogen. From this perspective, the difference that shielding makes isn't between "almost twice" and "twice", but between "almost twice" and "four times".
How each of the calculation methods (e.g. Slater) translates this physical shielding effect into factors is another matter. The clearest is perhaps Mills* model, where every electron completely shields one proton. The (electrical part of) the first ionization energy for $\ce{He}$-like atoms is thus simply $\displaystyle\frac{Z-1}{r}$, with $r$ determined by a force balance equation $(0.567$ for $\ce{He)}$. The second ionization energy is $\displaystyle\frac{Z-0}{r}$, with $r=\frac{1}{Z}$ as per the classical Bohr model $(0.500$ for $\ce{He+)}$. This formula extends to subsequent electrons, but determining $r$ becomes a bit more cumbersome.
*Randell L. Mills, The Grand Unified Theory of Classical Physics, 2018 edition (ISBN: 978-0-9635171-5-9) Chapter 7 "Two-electron atoms", eqs. (7.35) and (7.45). The general formula for the radius $r$ of a $\ce{He}$-like atom is $\frac{1-\frac{1}{Z}\sqrt{s(s+1)}}{Z-1}$, with $s=\frac{1}{2}$ the electron spin. For $\ce{He}$ this works out to $1-\frac{1}{4}\sqrt{3}$, or $0.567$ times the Bohr radius.