Welcome to the forum Darryl.
While "tempat" does seem to literally mean "place" or "holder", most of the time that i have seen the word used in connection with keris it has been in reference to "blawong", keris boards which hang on the wall. I don't know if the term is correct for describing these Balinese keris holding statues.
Yours is actually a fairly common figure, probably intended to be Hanuman, an ape-like Hindu deity. Despite the age cracks and chipped paint yours is probably from the latter part of the 20th century.