This came up on another thread recently, my understanding (as an interested player rather than a builder) is that if the nut/zero fret is dressed to the same hight as the other frets the non speaking part of the string between the nut and fretting hand will be resting on the intervening frets and prone to buzz or rattle* so the nut/zero fret is usually dressed slightly higher than the other frets.
* the non-speaking part of the strings pretty much always resonates.
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