[Lynn]

Are you asking for info, or quizzing?
Almost looks more red than orange, so could be off a vintage Buick, or even an old International, as they both used similar paint at different times. No telling how old. I believe you believe it is not a made up part, but there is no telling what someone may have done with it over the years. Appears to be a stamped steel plug wire tower with an integrated arm for a carb return spring. Apparently bolted to an intake or exhaust manifold, most likely the intake. That part is easy.

I have no idea why it would have the extra hole for the (apparent) linkage rod, or what that rod would have gone to.

You could disassembe it and use a jeweler's lupe to inspect the hole that the rod goes through. If the hole was drilled, then someone made the part this way after production. If it was stamped, then... I really don't know.

Just my .02.