Table component action to select row

Is it possible to ‘pre-select’ an item in a list, so it displays as selected on page-load?
I’m making a console screen for campaigns with list on the left, and a page include on the right (like on the Skuid Skool “Battle of the compponents: Deck vs List vs Table - Level 2”

The initial page-include loads the model first row, and I’m looking to have the corresponding list-item be selected, as it will be when the user selects another one.

My expectation is it’s a line of JS, but as far as I can tell for v2, the JS docs aren’t available.

Thanks