Thanks! The customizations are great or even using an image, or theme component as @pfaffman suggested; however, I want the immediate action for the button to do what the ‘request’ button does in the group page. 
Maybe the theme component could grab the exact button and insert it right below the topic content using JavaScript, but I am still learning so I am not sure how to grad this. I think it’d be something like: “reusing a Discourse widget in a theme component.”