Reducing co3SAT to UNIQUE-SAT
You are right that a 3CNF is, in particular, a CNF. The hint you give suggests that you find a reduction that, given a 3CNF $\psi$ on $n$ variables, constructs a CNF $\varphi$ such that $N(\psi) = 0$ iff $N(\varphi) = 1$, where $N(\chi)$ is the number of satisfying assignments of $\chi$. I can give a stronger hint: the reduction constructs a 4CNF $\varphi$ on $n+1$ variables such that $N(\varphi) = N(\psi) + 1$.