My Macintosh HD volumn icon is on my desktop, not the HD alias icon. Where should the volumn icon be put.

Tonight I saw that I had 2 HD icons on my desktop. When I went to info, I found out that one is the actual volumn icon and the other is an alias. Where should my Macintosh HD volumn icon be stored on my computer. I worry that if it is on the desktop, it might be deleted or put in the trash, if this is even possible.

If you've your Finder preferences set to show hard drives, etc., on the Desktop then that's where you'll see them... nohing to worry about.
If you've an alias for the drive, you can simply Trash it. No need to have it on the Desktop as well.
Clinton

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   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            80.1 GB    disk0s2
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