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Common misconception, display head =/= display socket.
It's not just missing the physical plug, it's missing the entire logic circuit dedicated to rendering and encoding a display output. Even if you wired an hdmi or dp to the board, it would have nothing to drive and time the signal.
That circuitry isn't a separate chip it's physically part of the GPU die architecture and you can't add it on later via a mod.