SSD Internal Drive Showing Up As External Drive!

Hello,
My Internal SSD is showing up as an external drive. I did a backup of all the data to another drive, erased it and re-partitioned it but it is still showing as a removable external drive. I don't know what to do as it "was" my startup drive so in the meantime I installed OSX on another drive for now. Would there possibly be a terminal command to change the drive to internal or something else I can do?
I appreciate the help.
Here are some pics to help hopefully.
Luke Eischen

As LexSchellings said, anything not on the built-in internal bus is considered external by the OS.
By the way, don't look at your device using System Information because that will really set your head spinning:

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