feat(DesignTokens): update overlap background color to color.neutral.900
What does this MR do?
Discussion !4638 (comment 2130006666) and !4623 (comment 2130043749).
Issue: when color.neutral.800 is used for background.color.overlap (used in GlModal and GlPopover) it decreases the contrast between foreground content and surface (background) color. Form field etc. blend into the background.
Proposed solution: change background.color.overlap to color.neutral.900 which mimmicks the previous inverted behaviour of the $white SCSS variable in dark mode. It's safer to assume contents will display as intended on this surface color. Once we have confidence that other tokenisation allows us to change the surface color to align with dark mode vision we can update --gl-background-color-overlap locally in consumers like GitLab to validate and update in GitLab UI to apply universally.
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