Can the game differentiate between two similar items if one is a drop and one is crafted?
The thinking being an MI drop can be dismantled and provide a crafting material which can be used to then craft another of the same MI, but that crafted MI would not provide the crafting material when dismantled.
Unless these are actually two different items (even when they have the same stats), I’d say no. Not sure if you can prevent one item from creating the component via dismantling either.