These two photos below show a piece of coathanger wire that I've attached near the gas cap.  The wire provides a "post" useful for temporarily olding the gas cap.  The inner-side of the gas cap conveniently has a hole that the "post" can snuggly fit into.
  This photo below shows the gas cap as is looks when it is being held by the wire-post:
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