Thanks for the replies. Looks like a universal "no", so I will stop worrying and restrain myself from tearing back into the gauge cluster to see if something is wrong.
It just struck me as strange that there was no lighting over there. Guess I never noticed that before. And of course all my...
Just replaced the headlight switch on my 1994 K2500 Silverado. Everything works correctly (park lights, headlights, dash lights), but when I drove it to work this morning, it seemed awful dark on the left side of the gauge cluster. As compared to the stock radio and HVAC clusters for instance...