PR 20749 gives each dict view access to a mappingproxy for the original dict, although I don't know if that defeats the original purpose.

It might be hard to sensibly make MappingProxy(d).items() return something other than d.items(), since this is already the behavior for user-defined classes:

>>> class A:
    def __getitem__(self, key):
        return "value"
    def items(self):
        return 17

>>> from types import MappingProxyType
>>> MappingProxyType(A()).items()
17