Backup not recognized after logic board swap and restore from clone

My MacBook Pro had a new logic board put in. I have an external drive that was a clone of the internal boot drive made with Carbon Copy Cloner, so I had booted my Mac Mini from the clone to continue working while the MBP was in the shop.
When I got the MBP back, I reversed the clone to updated the MBPs internal drive with changed files from the external clone.
Upon connecting the MBP's Time Machine drive, and reassigning that volume to TM, TM doesn't recognize the original backup folder as being the one to use. Instead it tries to make a new backup folder. But it fails and reports that there's not enough room on the disk.
Is there a way to manually point TM back to a particular backup folder? Or am I stuck losing those backups and having TM start over again?

V.K., thanks for pointing to the hint. I have some familiarity with Terminal, and followed the hint instructions closely. I could see that there was a new file with my new Mac address on the the TM volume. But still couldn't get my system to recognize the old backup, even after restarting and turning the TM drive off and on.
Since I didn't feel that my old files were that critical, I just went ahead and erased the TM volume and started a new backup set.

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