Can I upgrade the Hard Drive on my Mac Mini (Late 2012)?

I bought a Late 2012 Mac Mini from Fry's. This was a mistake, never again.
Back to the point. I have 1Tb of HDD. My hope is that upgrading that to a Fusion Drive will improve performance. Is it even available for a box I already own (and acquired from an infidel)? If so, how much will that cost?

mrdwongsf this discussion concerns the late 2102 Mini. That model has two SATA connectors on the logic board. You seem to be discussing the 2014 Mini which, only has one STA port and one PCIe port as you describe
mrdwongsf wrote:
From iFixit's breakdown, it's not that simple or not possible because they removed the SATA port from the motherboard, but you should be able to install a PCIe SSD (blade-style). They have not verified that mod yet.

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