My SSD from my fusion drive is showing up on desktop

So I recently did a restore from a timemachine backup.  Suddenly I now have two HDD showing up on my desktop.  One is the SSD and the other is the regular HDD.  How do I get it so it was like before where you didn't actually see the SSD?

Never mind I fixed it.  I just went back into restore mode and opened disk utility from there.  It showed there was a problem and then fixed it.  I did a restore from time machine after that and I got everything back working normally again.

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        =========================================================
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        Status:       Online
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