upper steering column bearing

[flamingbig10]

I put a new turn signal switch in my 84 auto, tilt column, after I pulled the old switch old I cleaned up and painted the column. When I picked up the column I heard something hit the ground so look down and it was a race, so stuck it back in and reinstalled the column parts when I got the part to install the lock plate the shaft became really loose I believe is there supposed to be a retainer to hold the race in