You are correct. The Recovery Rebate Credit on your 2020 tax return is based on information in that tax return. Any round one or two stimulus payments were advances on your 2020 Recovery Rebate Credit. However, since at that time you had not filed a 2020 return, those payments were based on prior year (2019/2018) return information.
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