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There's also the lead melody over the top plus I hear a muted rhythm guitar part overdub too, which may be the source of the OP's confusion, If I was doing this in a two guitar band it would be a nice add on, or if I were demoing how the song is put together for YouTube I'd include it for accuracy otherwise it's not something worth worrying about as its not part of the main rhythm and just acts as a percussive effect.
This kind of thing is the basis of funk guitar (Nile Rodgers riffs etc) as well as Ska.
I've got it down as a very, very fast triplet muted down, up, down followed by the usual reggae up stroke cut immediately dead by the fretting hand to get that skank rhythm to ring out (I'm also palm muting with picking hand at times).
By itself it makes no sense - but played along with the bass and single riff it sounds right.
I'm not surprised they never did it live - it needs the 2 guitar parts working together or it doesn't work. I'm guessing there's multiple dubbed guitars on the original recording.
He's also not staying on that E triad around the 5th fret for second part of playing E chord - there's a C# at 9th fret (barring across top 3 strings at 9th fret hence why I'm hearing an E major sixth chord) - followed by C barre chord top 3 or 4 strings moving down to the Am at 5 fret top 3 or 4 strings.
Chord sequence thus:
E -> E major 6 repeated a few times followed by C -> Am