The oem wheel is a thin walled (albeit heavy ga) unit. The collumn and steering wheel are welded together. Perhaps the bellows is intended to collapse in a crash? I guess you could destroy the stock steering wheel to harvest the tapered and splined "hole" and turn it into something else.
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