As a long time PTGui user from 2008 or so I have never had this zenit look.
Maybe it has to do with the altitude of the sun (23° above the horizon) which caused a hard edged flare in one of the photos but it is further away from the zenit so probably no influence.
My normal workflow is export TIF's from Lightroom Classic and import in PTGUI Pro.
If I export DNG's from Lightroom Classic the resulting panorama show a correct zenit.
The problem is showing in below screenshot of the zenit. I have change almost every setting but the problem still exist (when using TIF's or JPG's).
Attached a link of the half sized individual jpg's.