The strength of the light from the Sun scales with the inverse square of distance [note 1]. That means that we would need to have the Earth-Moon system at $frac{1}{sqrt{2}}$ (approx 0.7) AU for the full Moon to be twice as bright [note 2].
Note 1: The fact that the Sun is not a point source of light has only a very minor effect on the scaling.
Note 2: Technically, it will be slightly brighter because more of the absorbed radiation will be radiated away in the visible spectrum. This is however also a negligible effect.
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