Unscrew it and get it on the bench for a better look? It looks to me like there's a little wire ding dong in the groove thingy that you could maybe pry up and pop out. But I'm many light years away and the gravity here is giving me the spinnies - I could be wrong.
Many years ago I replaced the trunk struts on my MX-6 but I honestly don't remember the trick.
I do remember that the car wasn't supposed to have a spoiler from the factory but that the dealership added one to make it more appealing. Apparently this was more weight than the "non-spoiler struts" were designed to handle and one day I leaned in to retrieve groceries or some such and an errant waft of air cause the trunk to come down on the back of my noggin to draw blood and probably bring about my eventual Alzheimers a full year sooner. New struts were a life saving repair.
I broke a rib fixing the second the second row seats in my wife's Flex.
Pretty sure that makes you -at best- second biggest idiot.
I once spent way too much time working to remove a brake drum before realizing I forgot to remove the countersunk screw holding it on. Good thing the BFH hadn't been pulled out of the toolbox yet. Not one month later, I saw someone else doing the same thing and felt both good and bad telling them the problem. So yeah.
I recently replaced the driver's rear door power lock mechanism on my rover. The way they designed this piece, it is all of one unit, lock, power lock, and latch.
I forgot to hook the outer handle back up so I get to take the door apart again
Ah, good fun re-reading the posts in this thread. I got the ebay seller of the replacement struts to send me the ball studs and I got the things installed. All is good!
I had tossed the struts on the seat of the Nova in the detached garage and quite forgotten about them until today, when I was out there trying to de-clutter. Figured I throw them out but wait, lets see if we can solve the riddle. Sure enough, there is a circular ring/clip that holds the ball stud inside the socket. If you get a tiny little screwdriver in the 1/8" gap, you can chase it around in circles until you get behind it and lift it a little, where you can get another, more robust screwdriver behind it, then grab the thing with needlenose pliers and rip it out with much celebratory cussing. No way I could have done it with the struts on the car.
So there you go, if anybody cares! 
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