Issue with link existing Woo product

Dear Devolper,
First, thanks for your hard work on this plugin.

I duplicate ALD imported products using Dokan’s SPMV module and I need to link the duplicated product with another AliExpress product.
The issue is that the duplicated product does not show in the “Link existing Woo product”, I understand that this might be by design but could you provide me with a way to overwrite this restriction?
I tried clearing the “_vi_wad_aliexpress_product_id” meta field and leaving it as blank for the target product but it did not work.