Automatic Refresh of a Merged Power Query giving 'Table Not Registered' error

Scenario: I have 5 tables in my Azure VM SQL database associated with my ERP system. I have loaded all 5 tables into a 'Build Excel' workbook, merged the tables together and created a dataset that my users will be using. From that 'Build
Excel' workbook - I published to the BI catalog a data set simply called 'Customer information and Statistics' - This is searchable by my users and they don't have to go through the effort of combining the 5 tables.
I have a published workbook that uses the 'Customer Information and Statistics' data set and nothing else. I tried to schedule a refresh of the data and it failed (below is the error when I did a manual refresh):
OnPremise error: Sorry, the data source for this data connection isn't registered for Power BI. Ask your Power BI admin to register the data source in the Power BI admin center. An error occurred while processing table 'Customer Information and Statistics'.
The current operation was cancelled because another operation in the transaction failed.
So, going down that rabbit hole, I began the process of 'registering' this in Power BI - however, when I copied in the connection string it began walking me through a process of providing credentials to the 5 tables in my SQL server - that are already exposed
in my main data Sources. I figured I would continue and tried to use the service account credentials that my main data sources use and it would not properly authenticate.
Taking a step back it prompted a few questions:
Why am I being asked to register these 5 merged data sources that are already exposed in my base data sources?
Is my approach of creating 'Friendly named' Merged datasets for my users an incorrect approach?
Is there a different method I should be using to establish autorefresh on Merged datasets in these published workbooks using Power Query?
Thanks for the help -
Tom Grounds

Tom, can you submit this as a bug in the UI via the Smile Frown button?
Thanks!
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