It is not possible to place levers, buttons and traps on the same block as the player is. This is possible in Minecraft Java.
Please correct, thank you.
MCPE-31897
Bug to put buttons, levers and traps
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Thank you for your report!
However, this issue has been closed as a Duplicate of MCPE-16511.
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