Intake air temp sensors are just a simple temperature sensitive resistor. The sensor/resistor is put into a voltage divider circuit, with the top half of the voltage divider (5V supply and pull-up resistor) located in the ECU itself. There are only two ways this hardware change can work:
1) you get lucky, and the IAT sensor in the 6-wire MAF has the same resistance vs. air temp response as the original sensor used in our cars.
2) you change the transfer function in the ECU if you have a Tweecer or other means of calibration editing.
You can also run into a bigger problem with mixing and matching parts like this, where the pull-up resistor value in the ECU doesn't match the resistance range of the sensor (from cold to hot). The result will be an imbalanced voltage divider where the output voltage will always be too high or too low, and the temperature vs. voltage characteristic won't have enough resolution or variation for the ECU to read properly. (The only way around this is to change the pull-up resistor on the ECU board.)
The best method to see if this swap is even plausible would be to measure the resistance of the two pins on the stock IAT sensor, and then measure the resistance between the two pins for the IAT on the 6-wire MAF (should be ground and signal wire). If they aren't nearly identical, then it probably not do-able.
I would guess that these sensors are not interchangeable. This is probably why Ford racing sells the LMAF instead of the Cobra MAF: 1) it's cheaper without the IAT on board and 2) It won't interface properly so it's just easier to leave it out altogether.
Let us know what you find out. I'm curious but I don’t have a Terminator Cobra MAF to measure this on.