I would suspect it could have been easily resoldered with a high temp solder when it hapened. It still could except now the hole needs to be filled.
You might get lucky. The hole for the screw head looks like someone may have used a scope mount or ring screw from a rifle for repair. If you can scrounge up some 6x48, 8x32, 8x40 etc screws and try them one of them may happen to fit. Worst case is that brownells sells packs of them at a reasonable price you could buy to try. Some big sporting goods stores that mount scopes have a box of extras laying around.
The repair looks like it would be pretty unnoticeable with the screw in place. If you find a screw, install it with a touch of low temperature LocTite and it would hold you for a while until you have time to have it properly addressed.
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