How to get pre-appstore apps to show in app store purchased list

Can anyone tell me how I can add the apps that I purchased in the years before the app store went live to the 'purchased' list in the app store?

It cannot be done. MAS apps are wrapped in Digital Rights Management which both identifies the app to the MAS app, but also ties the app to the purchaser's Apple ID.
If you do a quick run down of the topics you will see folks complaining of "unknown" user names appearing in their MAS accounts. Those are folks with pirated MAS apps downloaded onto their Macs.

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