Console Top Plate Fasteners

str12-340 said
These aren't PAL nuts - no "washer" part so they are installed "upside down" because the flat of the hollow nut then lays on the attached part. They are made to be installed that way. Sorry but I'm not taking my console out to take a picture...

I recently took my console apart and they were installed the way you describe with the flat part against the surface of the bottom of the console.