Is it possible to use different styles for metadata fields when converting docx to md?

This question is related to this issue: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/5523

I need to use a word file generated by pandoc as a template for producing markdown (or JATS XML in a second step), but pandoc currently won't read the title back into the metadata if the style names change. (And this seems to happen if you save a word file with a word version on a non-english system.)

Best,

Denis