I tested this on a few items on my system. The scan is very fast, it does scan whatever file you chose,
but I too am not able to find any log suggesting a scan took place. Maybe the guru's here can say whether or not there is one. I can say for certain that a scan did occur. If one of the more experienced reads this, I did look thru the log viewer but found no reference to the scans as described.
However, be that as it may, Avast! did scan the file(s) selected nightshift , it was just very quick.