If possible, I'd like to have an option for the table to also use lapis like the vanilla table does.

I have no personal issue with lapis being required, however making this a configurable options would take a lot of work, and make it much harder for me to balance and design new features. Because of this, I have no immediate plans to add this feature, but I may come back to it in the future when the new stuff in the mod is more solidified.