If your sofa is the type that I think it is, back then, travel trailers sat much closer to the ground with no slides and the sofa was designed to sit on the wheelwell, inside the trailer. When manufacturers raised the trailers above the wheels to add the slides, they had to build a box inside the trailer for the sofa to sit on.
So, it doesn't provide any "structural strength" to the slide and its only purpose is to have "something for the sofa to sit on"... In later years, the sofa manufacturers designed a "steel tubing base to replace the box and then added deeper storage to the bottom of the sofa.
Once you unscrew the sofa and remove it, you'll be left with a "box screwed to the walls and floor". Unscrew and remove that and hopefully you'll have carpet under the box. If you don't, if you're replacing the sofa, the "bare spot" will be under the sofa, so no worries. If you're not replacing the sofa, then you'll need to determine how to "decorate the hole in the carpet"...
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John
2015 F250 6.7l 4x4
2014 Cougar X Lite 27RKS
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