One of my plastic ladder flange things was broken, so I removed both. Looks like a bolt and an insert drilled into stone, bolt is stuck in one and completely rounded off and I'm pretty sure the other is wasted too.. These are them:
Should I buy two new surface mount ones like these?
https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Wave-NE...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YW0NA3FACJYG8X7NYXR2
Or should I bite the bullet and drill into the brick for the flush mount ones? My pool has a stone "lip" around it, and paver bricks beyond the lip.

Should I buy two new surface mount ones like these?
https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Wave-NE...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YW0NA3FACJYG8X7NYXR2
Or should I bite the bullet and drill into the brick for the flush mount ones? My pool has a stone "lip" around it, and paver bricks beyond the lip.