as moraleida mentions, your setup is a custom implementation specific to your theme, not native to WordPress.
rather than use a category, I would use post metadata to designate posts as featured. I would additionally create a custom meta box to designate the post as featured, that way, on the back end, I can store when that post was made a featured post. then it’s simply a matter of doing a meta query to retrieve the posts with the most recent dates.
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