Laravel Model Relationship on Non-Static Tables - php

Question

So, I have a legacy Database, with a poorly designed structure that has recently been moved to Laravel, but with some hacky nonsense to get it to work with models. Given the following Tables:
|==========================|====|============|===========|
| companies | id | token | name |
|--------------------------|----|------------|-----------|
| people_{companies.token} | id | first_name | last_name |
|==========================|====|============|===========|
The companies table contains multiple records, with an auto-incrementing ID, unique token, and name.
Each Company has its own people_{companies.token} table, instead of a single people table, with an associated client_id.
At first, this meant I couldn't use a standard Company and Person Model/Relationships, as protected $table needs to be static. We got around this with a DynamicBinding Trait:
<?php
namespace App\Models\Traits;
trait DynamicBinding {
protected $connection = null;
protected $table = null;
public function bind(string $connection, string $table) {
$this->setConnection($connection);
$this->setTable($table);
}
public function newInstance($attributes = [], $exists = false) {
$model = parent::newInstance($attributes, $exists);
$model->setTable($this->table);
return $model;
}
}
This allows for setting a table on the fly:
$company = Company::first();
$people = (new Person())->setTable("people_{$company->token}");
$person = $people->first();
This works perfectly fine, returning the first record from the people_{$company->token} table, and facilitating most functionality required. Now, I'd like to make this work with Relationships. Given the following example:
// Person.php
public function company() {
return $this->belongsTo(Company::class);
}
$company = Company::first();
$people = (new Person())->setTable("people_{$company->token}");
$person = $people->first(); // No Issue
$peopleWithCompany = $people->with('company')->first(); // Cannot find table `people`
This returns the error:
SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'database.people' doesn't exist (SQL: select * from people limit 1)
Essentially, as soon as ->with() (or other functions, like ->query(), etc) is appended, it tries to perform the query based on the determined table (people from Person) instead of the table set via $people->setTable().
Does anyone have any experience connecting models to this kind of data structure, while allowing use of Eager Loading with Relationships? And sidenote, there is a plan to migrate everything to a single people table, but unfortunately not anytime soon...
Thanks in advance!