Stop in for a cup of coffee

Yeah... what do those crazy engineers at Holley know... :rolleyes:

Any reason why someone would remove that?
Forgot it maybe? And no I don't have one. I'm pretty poor on carburetor stuff these days. The reason it needs it is because that metering plate that's shaped the same way has to have something as a "back up" to seal against. If it was just the gasket itself, it would leak. If that makes sense.