It appears that the bracket is essentially a large nut with the attachment for the steering damper/shock. It appears to have opposite threading from the inner tie rod so I guess the idea was that it would unscrew as you unscrew the inner tie rod from the steering rack.
I say "guess the idea" because I could find no way to get that bracket/nut loose. Wasn't able to find anything online about best practices and didn't get any feedback from this forum either. So I finally just cut the bracket off and unscrewed the inner tie from the steering rack. After securing the tie rod in my vise I was still unable to get it to turn.
Anyway, I put in the new tie rods, lower ball joints, upper control arms/ball joints and shocks. All is well and I can't tell any difference with there being no steering damper/shock in place.
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