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Can you check the package names of the apps? On F-droid website you can see it in the url, for example https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jens.automation2/ the code is
com.jens.automation2. You should see the same name on the page of the app in settings if you scroll down.~~If the names are the same than nothing nefarious should be happening behind the scenes.~~
Unknown source can mean it's not from a built-in store. If you would be rooted and install the F-droid Privileged Extension it should show up there correctly. Maybe they just block reading this kind of info from F-droid.
On common Xiaomi phones the rom cooking community is very vivid usually, you can just replace the shitty default rom really easily. Start to look for roms and tutorials about rooting on xdaforums
The package names would not be different if it's installing a different (possibly malevolent) version of the same app.
Only the signature and other metadata would be different, but if the package name were different it would show as a different app entirely in places like f-droid, not as installed from elsewhere. It would show the intended app as not installed at all if the package name of the Xiaomi version wasn't the same.