MacOS Mail App: Is there a way to split the Trash/Junk Toolbar icon? Causes unintended junk filtering

Wondering why the Trash and Junk icons are fused together and if there is a way to separate them.

I would like to put the Junk icon further away from the Trash icon because I have inadvertently marked some mail as Junk when I simply meant to delete it. This has caused me to miss some critical emails.

I can't think of a reason they are together except the programmer thinks they are close enough to the same thing--which they are definitely NOT.