Mono a1,a2 instead of stereo a1+a2

My FCP project has its sound in two separate mono channels a1 and a2 (in Viewer tabs). When I close the mono tab, a stereo tab appears but it carries no signal. Now I cannot treat the two channels both at the same time in raising and lowering gain (with the pen tool). How can I combine these two to act as a stereo pair?
Hans van der Meer

To create a stereo pair:
1 Select a pair of mono audio clip items in the Timeline. (Use the Command key to select the second item, if necessary.) If you click one item of a linked pair, the other item is also selected.
2 Choose Modify > Stereo Pair (or press Option-L).
The stereo pair indicators appear on the selected clip items in the Timeline.
If the clip items you want to make into a stereo pair have different durations, the clip items are trimmed to the region where they both overlap. The levels, pan settings, and filters that were applied to the top clip are applied to both, and the clip attributes from the bottom clip are ignored.
+Source: Final Cut Pro User Manual+

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