Please see
this post for help with attachments.
If the polys were not Elements in the original scene, they should not be Elements in the new scene. Select and weld the vertices where the edges of the scene object and the imported object meet. They must, of course, both be part of the same object (attach them).
Max 2016 (SP1/EXT1)
Win7Pro x64 (SP1). i5-3570K @ 4.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX11.
nVidia GTX760 (2GB) (Driver 430.86).