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pcbnew DRC: erroneous error? `items shorting two nets (nets and )`

Description

DRC's reporting 2 NPTH shorting unnamed nets image

i have exactly the same footprint on the other corner of my board
and it's not finding an error there (maybe zone related?)

Steps to reproduce

  1. in this project, https://gitlab.com/evils/waad/-/tree/58cb142d1c43f69b080032bba8545dcf6d5e58cb/pcb
  2. run DRC
  3. see the error in the screenshot above

KiCad Version

Application: Pcbnew

Version: 5.99.0-dae40d5c9f, debug build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.1.3
	libcurl/7.71.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1g zlib/1.2.11 libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.40.0

Platform: Linux 5.7.0-rc4 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK

Build Info:
	Date: Jan  1 1970 00:00:01
	wxWidgets: 3.1.3 (wchar_t,wx containers) GTK+ 3.24
	Boost: 1.69.0
	OCC: 7.3.0
	Curl: 7.71.1
	ngspice: 31
	Compiler: GCC 9.3.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
	KICAD_SCRIPTING=OFF
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=OFF
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=OFF
	BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
	KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
	KICAD_SPICE=ON
	KICAD_STDLIB_DEBUG=ON
	KICAD_SANITIZE=OFF