My attempt at a Whatsit..

[Aloicious]

been having some fun with these, lets give it a try....

 

[Overread]

I would say a button - but those black dots look more like dots than holes.

 

[Aloicious]

they are indeed holes, but it's no button.

 

[Robin Usagani]

It is F G upside down. Winner winner chicken dinner!

 

[Aloicious]

heh

 

[Skaperen]

Manhole cover?

 

[EIngerson]

Old salt shaker?

 

[480sparky]

Unilateral phase detractor.
Automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeter.
Prefabulated amulite.
Differential girdlespring.
Spurving bearing.
Ambaphascient lunar wainshaft.
Drawn reciprocation dingle arm.
Panametric fan.
Panendurmic semi-bulloid slot.
Milford trunnion.

 

[EIngerson]

"Ambaphascient lunar wainshaft." I think you got it Sparky.

 

[480sparky]

"Ambaphascient lunar wainshaft." I think you got it Sparky.

So it IS a Retro Encabulator! (1:16)

 

[EIngerson]

Yup, now I have no doubt that is correct.

 

[Aloicious]

hah...I think you're getting close there....here's a wider view...

 

[Aloicious]

and a hint...many people use several of these, multiple times per day...but you may not be used to looking at this portion of it.

 

[cbrown222]

Looks to me either like a sink hole or a burner on a stove

 

[480sparky]

I saw a stove burner as well, but if it is, he shot it at f/0.01