Missing bolt or not missing a bolt?

[charliescarface]

I've posted this in one other Valk forum and remain (perpetually) confused. On the right side of my bike there is a hole in the front chrome exhaust pipe cover. This is at the point where the two covers meet about the same area as the drivers foot-peg/running board. The hole is threaded. After asking what this missing bolt would attach to if it were there, a guy in the other forum was nice enough to go and inspect his and said it doesn't attach to anything. It's a bolt in a hole! Any other riders familiar with this and if so, what is the design purpose? Since noticing the missing bolt on mine I've noticed a rattle but if the bolt is not attached to anything why it its absence causing a rattle?

[Chrisj CMA]

I've posted this in one other Valk forum and remain (perpetually) confused. On the right side of my bike there is a hole in the front chrome exhaust pipe cover. This is at the point where the two covers meet about the same area as the drivers foot-peg/running board. The hole is threaded. After asking what this missing bolt would attach to if it were there, a guy in the other forum was nice enough to go and inspect his and said it doesn't attach to anything. It's a bolt in a hole! Any other riders familiar with this and if so, what is the design purpose? Since noticing the missing bolt on mine I've noticed a rattle but if the bolt is not attached to anything why it its absence causing a rattle?

I have a clean almost like new set of OEM pipes on standby for "the day" and low and behold, I never noticed...there is a bolt in a hole to nowhere. 

Must be a democrat idea to create one more job on the assembly line......
(ok that part was a joke, dont get all bent ok Anvil)

[Gryphon Rider]

Click on this link to see this photo larger, then you can easily see that there is an hex-head screw in that hole (if you're talking about the one under the passenger floor board).
http://www.streetbikerider.us/Pics5/20080814-1384174-2000-Honda-ValkyrieInterstate.jpg

[charliescarface]

Washington's bolt to nowhere strikes again. Ok, for those who have looked do the threads at least snug up against the exhaust rim? I don't see any scratches on mine where that would have occurred back in the days when I still owned that now missing bolt.

[Chrisj CMA]

looks like it JUST bottoms out, there was a slight circular mark where it was seated when I removed it.