MLAPI Help Pushing the local player to the forefront only on local perspective

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Hello, I have started using MLAPI this week and have gained quite a bit of progress on my 2D game. Most of the functions that I want to be specific to the local player can be fixed with the IsLocalPlayer boolean. However I have reached a problem that has stumped me.
The goal is to have a platformer similar to Maplestory and hence players do not collide with one another and can overlap each other on the x and y plane. I would like to make the local player at the forefront perspective so naturally I coded it to push the player into the forefront by changing the z

void Awake()
    {
        z = this.gameObject.transform.position.z;
        z -= 1f;
     }

void Update()
    {
        if (!local) local = IsLocalPlayer;
        else
        {
            this.transform.position = new Vector3(this.transform.position.x, this.transform.position.y, z); //this line makes sure the local player is always at the forefront relative to other players
            Move(); // script to move my player
            Track(); // script to move the camera 
        }
    }

However I have a network transform component attached to the player which handles the x and y positions. I hence realize that no matter what Z I set, it will be sent across the server and eventually all players will have the same Z resulting in the engine not sure which player to place at the forefront resulting in a blend of alternating players at the forefront.

Anyone got any ideas to force the player to always be at the forefront relative to others? ( I could edit the NetworkTransform script but I would very much like to leave that intact and it is a final resort.)

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I recommend Photon Bolt, but if you want to continue to use MLAPI (which I STRONGLY recommend against) then this confusing line gives you the local player in some way:
if (NetworkManager.Singleton.ConnectedClients.TryGetValue(NetworkManager.Singleton.LocalClientId,
out var networkedClient))

I got that from:
https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/docs/tutorials/helloworldtwo