For all intensive purposes, the dash is an open modification area meaning that you can do whatever you want with it, so long as it maintains a professional, presentable, and neat appearance. We want to keep our cars looking nice and not like a mess of wires and zip tied gauges since this helps the perception of the class which helps build the class numbers.
Nothing about my dash is stock, but the shape of it is molded off a late dash. There are others that just have a simple flat horizontal surface with a vertical surface on the front to mount gauges and no other shapes to it.