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with the help of cut and paste you can get the result
$cut -f3 file7.txt >temp1.txt
$cut -f3 file8.txt >temp2.txt
$paste temp1.txt temp2.txt >file.txt

Pure awk:

side by side:
awk 'NR==FNR{a[NR]=$2; next} {print a[FNR], $2}' file1 file2

concatenated on one column:
awk '{print $2}' file1 file2