Tonight's update...
Removed the carb and looked around the intake with a flashlight hoping to find that darn stud - no luck! Shoved an extendable magnet down each port hoping to pull the stud back out with it - no luck! Interestingly, no metal bits or shavings came back on the magnet either.
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