It is just a idea for a shape mod that I didn't manage to build, in case someone else finds it interesting.
The idea is to obtain two fused cubes like them:
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It could be modded from a rubik's cheese, where each of the pieces of the cheese corresponds to an edge of a cube, and the central plane of the cheese is the line in red here:
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OK, photos aren't good but the idea is easy

(Of course these pictures are from a cast puzzle, not a twisty one)