Add HTML above

You could do something like this:

<script type="text/x-handlebars" data-template-name="/connectors/before-topic-list/NameOfThing">
  <div class="className">
    <p>Hi there!</p>
  </div>
</script>

This renders the text in the before-topic-list outlet.
You can change the outlet and component names in data-template-name.

Be sure to put this in Customize > CSS > New component > Edit CSS/HTML > Head.