In this work we investigate the equilibrium states of a pair of two small bodies, natural or artificial, that remain very close to each other, undergo a weak interaction and move in the field created by a formation of $N=\nu +1$ large bodies, $\nu $ of which have equal masses and are located at the vertices of an imaginary regular $\nu $ -gon while the $N$ th body with a different mass is located at the center of mass of the system. We consider that forces acting on the small bodies by all large primaries are produced by the classical Newtonian gravitational potential of these bodies. However, the potential produced by the central primary is characterized by an additional Manev-type inverse square corrective term. This term may play the role of a normalizing factor of the Universal Law of Gravitation in cases where the central primary is a non-spherical body (oblate or prolate spheroid) or a strong source of radiation. By assuming that the primary bodies are in relative equilibrium, we give the equations of motion of the pair of small bodies, in a synodic coordinate system rigidly attached to the primaries. We numerically investigate the equilibrium states and study their stability. A part of this work is dedicated to the parametric variation of two characteristic quantities of the small bodies, that is the distance $\rho $ between them and their Jacobian constant $C_{p}$ at an equilibrium state.