Need help with the back compartment

Hello everyone. I am new here and I joined this forum because I was given a guitar as a present. The guitar is Ernie Ball Music Man Axis Sport. I plugged and played the guitar only once and decided to open the back compartment after I realized I was getting a scratchy noise every time I am fiddling with the Tone knob.

The picture attached shows how I found the compartment. I am not sure what, but I can see that something was removed and wires were cut off. Please help, I am not sure if…

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