I accidentally deleted the main device on my time machine and now I cannot set it up nor can i back up my files before I go to my appointment with apple, please help!

hello, I have a macbook pro and I have an appointment with apple to figure out what is loose in my hard drive, so before my appointment I want to back up all my files but while trying to set up my time machine, I accidentally deleted the main device, so now I cannot back up my stuff, is there anyway to retrieve the main device so that I am able to back up my stuff?

not sure if this may help explain further, but here are screenshots of what I am seeing!

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