This is a pet peeve of mine as well. Personally, I would prefer it to appear as 2 columns of 2 tracks, so a choice between 2x2 or one column of four tracks would be cool. Either would be better than one column of three and an extra track hanging out by itself though.
P.S. This behavior occurs on all albums in this view, whether they are multi-disc or single disc (as long as the window isn't very narrow causing everything to become 1 column).