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It's not so much that the insulator absorbs the shock of impact, rather it insulates the coil spring from the strut cartridge. If you don't install an insulator, you'll end up with metal-to-metal contact which can lead to squeaks and other noises as you go down the road. And of course any time you have that contact, you'll eventually (probably rather quickly) wear off any protective coatings/paints and will then introduce corrosion to both the spring and the cartridge's apron. Considering the amount of tension the spring places on the cartridge, I don't see where the two would separate and then bang back together while going over a bump/pothole, but I'm fairly certain you'll be able to hear it squeaking as they rub together.
I'm not a mechanic nor do I recommend this, but if you're looking for a cheap way out, you could buy a tube of urethane and fill the apron, place a plastic film over it and then make an imprint with the coil spring. Bear in mind that the insulator does have a preset location/reference so you'd really have to do some aligning to get this right but then you could pull the spring back out, let the urethane cure, and then assemble it.
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