Well, there is precedent. by
Outhra
on 2013-08-05 16:10:00 UTC
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Colin Baker played a Gallifreyan guard named Maxil in a Fifth Doctor story before being cast as the Sixth Doctor, and that was never mentioned again, despite how much fun a story dealing with that could be. Just think about it: two incarnations of the Doctor, working at the same time in the same place, but working to fight off threats just different enough that neither can reveal their identity to the other, but every once in a while, it could overlap their stories to show what the other was doing in the previous episode/other side of the conflict.
Of course, since the Doctor Who-canon characters played previously by Peter Capaldi were indisputably human, and one of them died, that's not something that can happen now, either, but there's always a possibility of an actor allusion at some point.