YES! THERE MUST BE O-RINGS THERE!!!
Sorry for shouting, but if you leave those o-rings out you'll have:
1. oil leaking out your head gasket
2. poor top end oiling
3. a trashed cam and cam towers
4. much sadness with the rending of the clothes and the gnashing of the teeth and the pulling of the hair....
I'll see if I can look up the part number and/or size for you.
mystic_1