Having suffered in the past from trying to fit without checking first, a couple of hopefully relevant points.
If you succeed in fitting shocks with lower eyelets, then surely they would not be sitting in line vertically, plus the thing that would worry me is that all the vertical loading on the lower bolt would be at one point only giving the effect of a guillotine. With the clevis type, the loading is shared equally between two points on the bolt. Hope this makes sense, because I'm not an expert!
EXPERT = Ex (Has Been), Spurt (Drip Under Pressure)
Regards, Mick.