The Item record is the same for all varieties of an Item, and the cost price is a part of the item record.
Regarding the sales price, it is not possible to set different prices per variety. I suggest you to report a development wish
I would like to know what BackgroundHALShouldPause does, and how to use it. While it's listed in the HAL Primitives report, it is not used in source code and it doesn't appear in the LMS HAL...