Interesting...A resonable guess would be that your ContentViewData object is being upcast to BaseViewData due to some interaction with your nested master page (if that is indeed the case, someone else will need to weigh in as to why).
As you can see from my edit, it seems that the compiler totally ignores the nested master page's 'inherits' attribute.
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