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Odd Guitar Center experience(?)

The amp can't reproduce the bass fundamentals - there's no risk of damage from something that isn't there.

Unless the amp has some specific type of filter involved that removes the lows, I don't believe that's how that works. To the contrary, to the best of my knowledge, frequently since guitars don't really have much of that low end content, I seem to recall that guitar amps may actually be less likely to have those sorts of protections in place.

The only thing that can get you in trouble is plugging a bass amp into a guitar cab and that's regardless of what the source instrument is.

As a PSA for anybody looking to follow this advice, this is also not true for the same reason I note above unless I'm mistaken (happy to be corrected).

Guitar amps are used with bass somewhat frequently, especially in recording situations. They can sound good and can reproduce lows similar to a bass amp. The key is to not try and push the cab past its limits - simple as that, and that means different things for different cabs regardless of whether they're meant for guitar or bass.
 
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I'm not sure why my bass gear wasn't in our practice space at the time... But I used my guitarist's Marshall head and his 4x12 slant front for practice one night. It sounded amazing even at high (louder than rock drums) volume. Super punchy, I was impressed. I considered adding a 4x12 Marshall cab to my BiAmped system. I'm sure I was being aware not to drive too much low end through it. But playing a bass through a guitar amp and low volumes will do nothing to the amp or the speakers... unless you were blasting some dub sounds at high volume.

When I saw Motorhead I was convinced Lemmy had a high pass filter on his system set at about 800hZ...