RESOLVED. The answer was in the documentation link previously provided.
The solution is to specify the priority number associated with the CSS file.
Grav assigns a default priority value of 10 and prepends page-specific (or plugin-specific) CSS files to the list of all CSS files from the base.html.twig which have that default priority value of 10 (i.e., all CSS files which by default have no priority specified).
To get an individual page-specific CSS file to be listed below all those normal CSS files, explicitly set a priority value of less than 10 to that unique asset.
{% block stylesheets %}
{% do assets.addCss('theme://css/z.css', { priority: 5}) %}
{{ parent() }}
{% endblock %}
And, so, while all the other style sheets have no priority value specified and therefore by default get assigned 10, this one has been explicitly set to priority 5 which forces Grav to list it below all the others.
Success. I now have the required cascade for the unique page:
x.css
y.css.
z.css
I hope this helps someone in the future.