There Is No Crown to This Altar, As on. the Golden, Altar of Incense, Because It Sets Forth Jesus on the Cross, and Not on the Throne, Dying, Rising, and Ascending, but Not yet As Glorified. °If Any Crown Were Suitable, It Must Be a Crown of Thorns THE OVERLAYING OF THE ALTAR

And thou, shalt overlay it faith brass. Brass is the emblem of enduring strength. In the case of Jesus that strength was Divine. The shittim wood expresses his human susceptibility of suffering, the brass his Divine power of endurance.
As God, he could not suffer; as man, he could and did; and as the God-man he could endure the sufferings adequate to the salvation of sinners.