I figure it's not possible but I'm asking anyway, is it possible that when a standby unit takes over and the active becomes available for the active to somehow preempt the standby and take over in a similar fashion to HSRP?
Unfortunately you cannot do this in active/standby configuration. There is a preempt command but it is only applicable in an active/active failover scenario -
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