I thought the pressure plate attached to the crankshaft and the flywheel attached to it.
I tried reusing the bolts but at least one of them gave it up on final torquing (44+1/4), so it's off to the stealership for me. At least they have free cookies.
On the transverse cars (Golf, Jetta) it does go that way until mid nineties-ish. The longitudinal cars have a more traditional setup where the flywheel attaches to the crankshaft, then the pressure plate bolts onto the flywheel. The transmission input shaft is supported by a bearing inside the crank as well as the bushing where it passes through into the case. The throwout bearing wraps around the input shaft and pushes directly on the pressure plate spring rather than the transverse cars' method of the throwout bushing pushing on a rod traveling through the center of the input shaft and pushing on a plate to disengage the clutch.
This is why the early transverse cars don't need a pilot bearing in the crank, while all the longitudinal cars and the later transverse cars do.