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Take it to a competent professional luthier and get your bass evaluated as to what actually needs to be done and how much money it will cost to make it playable again. This shouldn't cost you much just for a look-see and estimate. It's far better than you just tinkering away with few tools and just as few skills.
Some of the EB-0's are bolt on necks. Can you shim the neck to get the string height where it should be?
The neck already has a shim in it. From the looks of it, not a very functional one though. I might try putting a better one in. Thank you! It came from the factory shimmed.
Looks like a shim would do it. A slim piece of material (You can used guitar picks cut into slivers, they come in different thicknesses so you can experiment) put under the neck heel right up against the body tilting the neck back.
NP, you should make sure the truss rod is adjusted properly 1st. I'm not a fretless guys so I'm not 100% sure what a fretless neck likes, a fretted neck wants a very slight amount for relief (forward bow).
^^THIS^^ You might need to re-shim the neck, but personally? I would check this first. Your nut was set up to clear the frets - and you don't have any now. Dollar to a donut it's too high. Getting the nut right will affect how thick a shim you might need, too.
It looks to me like there is also a gap between the top of the pocket and the neck; that isn't helping any. @Reedt2000 tell him about screw holes while your're at it. The relief is probably okay, if it was before, the action has been raised by the fret removal. The nut will definitely need adjustment.
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By screw holes I assume you mean that the screws which hold the neck to the body must pass cleanly through the body and only bite into the wood of the neck
The nut needs to be adjusted so you have around 0.010~0.015" of clearance to the bottom of the string. When filing you want a round bottom, not a 'V'. If you file it to a 'V' the string won't rest in the bottom, the string will tend to bind, and tuning will wear the nut much faster.
I didn't do that. To be honest, the nut keeps falling out no matter how many times I glue it. I even had a professional put it in when I was going to have them put in the pickup, but it didn't stay. I will try filing it, though! Thanks for the advice ^_^
Usually just a drop or two of yellow glue will hold a nut in place. Whatever you do don't glue a nut in permanently with gorrila glue or any other heavy duty adhesive. They need to be removable.