The device you are describing is the bypass valve and should be mounted in the bottom of the plastic filter housing. If it has broken loose, you may be in the market for replacing the plastic housing.
If that is the case, I would recommend scrapping the factory set up and switching to LN Engineering's spin on filter adapter. Then you can use a better filter than the factory junk.
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