It is a smaller nut-cert within a larger one. The threads have been removed leaving just the shell.
There are a bunch of different manufacturers of the "nut-certs". Slightly different designs. Various choices of metals.
I'm not particularly familiar with that brand, but that's what it is.
Something, non-factory had been mounted there that used a large hole and the solution was to dress the hole to make it look professional.
If that is Detomaso original, then you have the only one ever built?
I would just find a black plastic plug that fits snuggly enough in the hole and forget about it. That is what I would do anyway.
Thanks for posting the pictures.
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