Exercise: In the compound of five octahedra, won't there be 40=5*8 faces for the interior? So how could the interior be an icosahedron, which we know has only 20 faces ?
Answer: Each icosahedron face is part of two octahedra. This is dual to the fact that in the compound of five cubes, each dodecahedron vertex is shared with two cubes.
Similarly, in the compound of ten tetrahedra, the 40 faces come in 20 coplanar pairs, and the interior is an icosahedron. These are both examples of stellations of the icosahedron.