Struggling to configure search

I'm extremely new to SharePoint. On our SharePoint environment we have Public Site and Team Site (Intranet). I am trying to configure search for our newly created intranet (teamsite) but am encountering difficulties.
When opening the main page of our intranet site I already see it has an "out of the box" search bar containing the following verticals:
- Everything
- People
- Conversations
- This Site
I simply wanted to add Documents & Media verticals alongside these options in the search navigation, but I think I've modified the Search Center search component instead of the teamsite search.
To try add the verticals I did the following:
Went to https://[domain].sharepoint.com/search (I believe this is the Search Center?)
Created the documents results page by:
- clicking Site Content > Pages, and creating a new page 'documentresults.aspx'
Added the documents results page to the verticals
- navigated to Search Site Settings > Configure Navigation, and added the documentsresults.aspx link to the navigation
Connected a Results Source to my new vertical
- navigated to the documentresults page > Edit Page > Edit Search Results Web Part > Change Query > Selected Documents Query > clicked OK
Questions:
What are the correct actions to modify a teamsite search verticals etc.
What is the purpose of a Search Center?
Are there any key configurations I am missing?
Thanks

Hi,
Based on your description, my understanding is that you want to add the search navigation named Documents & Media verticals to your team site search bar which containing the following verticals: 1.Everything
2.People 3.Conversations 4.This Site
To add the search navigation named Documents & Media verticals to your team site search bar：
Go to Site Settings->Search Settings (under Search section) -> Add Linking, add Title and URL-> ok.
The team site search bar will not inheriting from the parent search page, so the team site search bar will not contain 1.Everything 2.People 3.Conversations 4.This Site, but you can add those by Add Link as add Documents
& Media verticals.
A Search Center site is the top-level site of a site collection that a farm administrator creates by using the Enterprise Search Center template or Basic Search Center template, provides an interface for users to
submit search queries and view search results from all farm.
Best Regards,
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