Ultimately the solution that I found was to use global $post; to retrieve the current post’s ID.
Immediately after wp_insert_post( $new_cpta ); above, I added
global $post;
$currentid = $post->ID;
Then I was able to update the post meta for the correct post with $currentid in place of $post_id.
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