I don't know if you're talking about a veeeeery old implementation or haven't properly configured it, but you can use both the device reference or the partition UUID.

This is one of my systems using both identifications:

  root@multivac[~]# zpool status
    pool: boot-pool
   state: ONLINE
    scan: scrub repaired 0B in 00:01:33 with 0 errors on Fri Dec  9 03:46:34 2022
  config:

        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        boot-pool   ONLINE       0     0     0
          sdg3      ONLINE       0     0     0

  errors: No known data errors

    pool: multivac-slow
   state: ONLINE
    scan: scrub repaired 0B in 07:05:51 with 0 errors on Sun Nov 20 09:05:55 2022
  config:

        NAME                                      STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        multivac-slow                             ONLINE       0     0     0
          mirror-0                                ONLINE       0     0     0
            ad3395b6-ac43-453c-9ba2-cf65542cb710  ONLINE       0     0     0
            2c423fe3-07a4-44cb-bc39-8b267c79d8c3  ONLINE       0     0     0
          mirror-1                                ONLINE       0     0     0
            8ca9d5a2-04cb-47a0-987a-8b3d27326975  ONLINE       0     0     0
            bec4c67f-fa41-4ab2-907f-0e5b1e052300  ONLINE       0     0     0
        cache
          bfef4d7f-c484-4c37-a0b7-81d59fa1e189    ONLINE       0     0     0
  root@multivac[~]# blkid|grep zfs_member
  /dev/sda2: LABEL="multivac-slow" UUID="4053361656876756561" UUID_SUB="363024978934966364" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="zfs_member" PARTUUID="2c423fe3-07a4-44cb-bc39-8b267c79d8c3"
  /dev/sdd2: LABEL="multivac-slow" UUID="4053361656876756561" UUID_SUB="10877444988141002268" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="zfs_member" PARTUUID="8ca9d5a2-04cb-47a0-987a-8b3d27326975"
  /dev/sdb2: LABEL="multivac-slow" UUID="4053361656876756561" UUID_SUB="9244362969528724588" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="zfs_member" PARTUUID="ad3395b6-ac43-453c-9ba2-cf65542cb710"
  /dev/sdc2: LABEL="multivac-slow" UUID="4053361656876756561" UUID_SUB="11658072268678819533" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="zfs_member" PARTUUID="bec4c67f-fa41-4ab2-907f-0e5b1e052300"
  /dev/sdg3: LABEL="boot-pool" UUID="13291833732043257716" UUID_SUB="15424416082895860251" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="zfs_member" PARTUUID="b6c0b302-7599-4862-888b-be6f7a85b970"