I ran into this with Blinka and the busio module, I had to switch to adafruit_exteded_bus in order to specify a device. If Sparkfun doesn’t have a module to do that, consider Adafruit CircuitPython instead.
Also, if you merge the dto instead of enabling it, the device numbers will switch (at least it did for me). It’s still not the right way to do it, but if you need it to work immediately, it might be a quick band-aid fix. Better than disabling something anyhow.
Just make sure learn to do it the proper way too, because relying on a bug (or at least something that wasn’t intended behavior) long-term is not maintainable practice (for much the same reason as @librecomputer not wanting you to disable the HDMI adapter).
Also, if you don’t mind, what is the device you’re trying to connect? There may already be a library or diver for it.