Top 10 adds two Dashboard Widgets that allows logged in users to see the popular posts. These widgets reflect the same counts as Top 10 > Popular Posts.
If you don’t want to display this, then you can add the following code into your theme’s functions.php or a file in mu-plugins folder.
remove_action( 'wp_dashboard_setup', 'tptn_pop_dashboard_setup' );
Top 10 Settings – Popular Post list options
