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The reason for the results is that callable symbolic expressions are defined by interpreting the input variables as symbolic variables, and calling will amount to substitution of values into those variables in the expression on the right-hand side. I agree this limitation is not obvious and often confusing for beginners.
Indeed, when f and g are symbolic variables, and x is a symbolic variable, then f(x) and g(x) will both evaluate to x, and integral(f(x)*g(x), (x,0,1)) hence evaluates to integral(x^2, (x,0,1)) which is indeed 1/3.
As explained in the other answer, what you want is a Python function instead.
