Placing (importing) exisiting AiCC file (.ai) in AiCC creates Group, Clip Group and Clipping Path

Been dealing with this for the l-o-n-g-e-s-t time, and I have not figured out a way to avoid or prevent this annoyance?
I elaborate—
When using the Place command—which I use frequently—to import an exisiting Ai file (fig 1) into AiCC, the end result, invariably, is a Group containing a Clip Group containing a Clipping Path and the actual object.

Interestingly, this occurs only for Ai files (and PsCC files, BTW ..), yet not for JPG or PNG files.
See below—

• Fig 1. First screenshot shows exisiting AiCC file (a simple compound object) I select using Place command (import) to insert in new AiCC file.

• Fig 2. Second screenshot shows how placed (imported) object from exisiting AiCC file appears within Clipping Path within Clip Group within Group.
Also, if the placed object happens to have fill and stroke, they are each separated within the layer.

A solution—applicable to AiCC files only—is to open the exisiting file with the object I want import, select the object then drag it over to the new file (from one tab to another), but this opening and closing of files is absurd.

Any thoughts and/or solutions are greatly appreciated.

Fig 1.

Fig 2.