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I'm pretty sure the base is okay. It is, however, a budget chair- a budget gamer chair. I have some old broken office chairs that I've kept around (the backs and arm rests fell off because they were cheap plastic, the seats and bases are fine. I'll check if the pistons are interchangeable
They do sell the tool-kit for removing the pistons by itself on the aforementioned website and probably other places. It's basically two ring collars that snap/screw together with a screw and hex key to turn it to push the pieces apart though that may be the easy part as the pistons tend to be pressed into the base and getting that out can be a trouble and require some bashing with the thing braced and in some cases just may not come out without using a method that destroys the piston (not a problem when replacing it but a big one when trying to swap).
The one in your picture may be a cheaper design than what I'm thinking of here. I'm not a chair expert I just once replaced a cylinder on an office chair I salvaged and followed the instructions and watched a couple videos.