kind of a dumb question about intakes

today i chopped up an AEM CAI to fit in my car (no one makes specific ones for it) so its in and works fine, but the temp sensor i just left out. its just sitting on top of my shock housing. i dont have a big enough drill bit to make a hole in the intake, so i came up with another idea. i had to put two separate peices of piping together with the AEM coupling. could i just make a hole in that and stick the sensor in there? if i can, is it alright to extend the wires for the sensor? i didnt really want to mess with it. and when i first put the intake in , i forgot to hook the actual temp peice into the plug socket, and got a check engine light, but i plugged it back in and the lights gone, the car seems to be running fine, but am i losing some power bc of the higher temp reading? (outside the intake VS inside)

nevermind i fixed the prob