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Aren’t these used for adjustability? Meaning you can loosen or tighten them to deal with unevenness?
And if that’s the case, wouldn’t reversing the t nut result in the weight of the furniture pushing the t nut out of place?
You can use t-nuts for a lot of reasons. A t-nut specifically is for screwing machine screws into wood. This particular use case is using that machine screw as a leveler, but it's not the only case.
Sometimes you just want a large, solid bolt to hold things together, but allow them to be taken apart. In those cases I try to put the t-nut the other way around so assembly tightens the nut.
They're used a lot in cheap pressboard furniture, to keep the screws from stripping out in the weak "wood."