Based on this discussion, I’m changing my request - slightly! If the choice is in “Window->Model Information”, then a user could have more than 1 model active - with different settings! And when you open a model, and you feel strongly about setting the active layer, you’d need to check every model.
Since (and this is a guess) most people would want to set this once for all the models they deal with, it should be in Preferences, not Model Information. I’ve done a mock up:
I think it makes the most sense to put it in the “Drawing” section as I’ve shown, but I can imagine reasonable arguments to put it elsewhere. I’m also not wedded to the wording.