Extending surface with edge cloning

Select either of the objects, enter edge sub-object mode. Select the side edge and shift-drag. (Shift-dragging means that you keep a shift button pressed on the keyboard while dragging something with the mouse.)

This is how you create polygons by shift-dragging the edge selection.

Select several boundary edges.

Shift-and-Drag to Create several polygons at once.

Modifying topology with Welding

Delete a polygon. Select a vertex.

Enter Weld Target mode in Vertex sub object mode.

Drag the vertex over another. Release the mouse button. Vertex should weld.

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