Detailed VIew: Timed switching between //:recent and other folder can show recency row in other folder
If you switch between Recent and Home enough times and quickly enough, you can get the location and recent columns on the home folder, without doing anything search related.
I think you have to switch as soon as the recency column is shown in order to reproduce.
The cause is probably the following:
Failed to set property "thunar::/last-details-view-visible-columns": Operation was cancelled