Ability to provide an ignore list of reference links for markdown validation

When creating a README.md file for a GitLab repo, I received the following validation error after adding a reference of [TOC] ^1. I recognize this Table of Contents element is a feature extension added by GitLab to the standard Markdown syntax, so there was no surprise that I received the following error: No link definition found: 'TOC'.

While searching for a way to disable or ignore this one error, I ran across https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75252767/have-vscode-ignore-specific-reference-links-in-markdown-validation, but there was no known solution offered.

As suggested in the the SO thread, it would be nice if there was a way to ignore just this one 'TOC' entry via an ignore list, instead of having to to completely disable reference link validation (with "markdown.validate.referenceLinks.enabled": "ignore") for the whole project.

Is there currently a way to ignore this TOC link that I've missed?

If not possible through some current means, can the reference link validation be modified to also consider entries in the markdown.validate.ignoredLinks list or a separate setting added for providing a list of reference links that should be ignored?

The setting under markdown.validate that I did find (markdown.validate.referenceLinks.enabled) does work, but is not desirable since it turns off all reference link validation for the whole project. What I was hoping for was a way to keep that validation rule enabled, but be able to provide an explicit list of links that would be ignored.

I tried adding the following configuration, but it did not work as I hoped it would:

"markdown.validate.ignoredLinks": [ "TOC" ] 

A little more detail on the specific error reported:

[{
	"resource": "/c:/Projects/..../readme.md",
	"owner": "markdown",
	"code": "link.no-such-reference",
	"severity": 4,
	"message": "No link definition found: 'TOC'",
	"startLineNumber": 17,
	"startColumn": 2,
	"endLineNumber": 17,
	"endColumn": 5
}]