Pass the Data grid 2s list of objects as a parameter in the area above the filters section

Something I would like to see is the ability to modify the data grid using a button inside the area above the filter section. 

Background coming into this idea is that I am using a microflow that hits an API to pull the data for the data grid 2. I wanted to add buttons with badges above the data grid to filter the data down on the button without needing to input text since I am trying to filter on certain status's. I had to do a huge whole work around to accomplish this when it would have been really easy to do if I had access to the list of objects that is part of the data grid