Description: Set a component of an extensible structure. This function is useful for
taking an existing structure and "overriding" one of its components.
For example, df-ress adjusts the base set to match its second
argument, which has the effect of making subgroups, subspaces, subrings
etc. from the original structures. Or df-mgp , which takes a ring and
overrides its addition operation with the multiplicative operation, so
that we can consider the "multiplicative group" using group and monoid
theorems, which expect the operation to be in the +g slot instead of
the .r slot. (Contributed by Mario Carneiro, 1-Dec-2014)