Mine was glued, so I had to cut the glue to open it. But, To raise the voltage a little, one can replace one or two of the AA batteries and put inn ls14500 batteries that have 3.7 volt. 14.2 volt with one ls14500 or 16.4 volt with two ls14500.
Made a drawing to be 3D printed for my Whites TDI SL. I think it a good configuration for the battery pack is 4 X 18650 + 1 AA battery in series, so it can give about 16,3 volts.