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You will find a tuner on eBay eventually, and if the pickup really sucks you might want to explore keeping the casing but having a clever rewind from one of the peeps on here, as it's so much of the look of the bass IMO.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1970s-Commodore-Semi-Acoustic-Bass-Made-Japan-/312313729965
Edit: Serial No starts with 21xxxx? This plus Steel Reinforced = pre-1970. Steel Adjustable after 1970.
These are *very* cool and quite sought-after these days (at least by people who like this sort of thing!) and it's in beautiful condition by the look of it. It's actually late 60s or early 70s, but that still means it's survived intact for around 50 years.
Don't mod it irreversibly, or at least not in some way that shows - replacing the jack is obviously fine (use a USA Switchraft, pretty much anything else is junk), you should be able to repair the machinehead by just replacing the broken shaft, or at worst find a matching one, and if the pickup is truly awful, as KKJale said you could have it rewound to a better spec - or alternatively, have a new mounting ring made to take a modern pickup so you can keep the old one and the pickup intact. Or see if a Rickenbacker one will fit - the dimensions look similar, and they're not too far away visually.
I'll have a look in my spares box and see if I have a tuning key...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Of course there won't be any direct replacement so a rebuild might be the way to go.
..... and despite being in the loft with no case for 20 years it plays really well. Neck seems straight.