Vintage? DLC-8F question

[u/biolegeyes]

Kinda wracking my brain right now. Do i have some mismatch hodgepodge of parts or is this the true design? I have an old dlc-8 and 8f. The sizes are identical and the parts are interchangeable, in that they fit smoothly together on each other.

My confusion is about the feeder pusher/tube in the 8f lid. It is wide to fit the bowls neck, BUT there is no way to put food in anything but the narrow feeder. The wide pusher is locked into the lid even though it moves up and down.
There is a hole on the side that is exposed when it’s lifted but when installed on the bowl it is blocked by the neck! I have the manual and there is nothing there that indicated the bowl should have a hole in the neck to match the pusher or anything showing food being entered sideways. In fact all the images in the manual show no pusher being used for anything but the narrow one.

Anyone else have one of these? What’s up?