creating template/custom User Control in winforms

Question

custom user control may not be the correct wording as it brings me to placing something in the toolbox. What I think I am really looking for is some option that allows me to do an add new item but instead of selecting "User Control" I would select "Menu Panel"

Say I wanted to create a new user control that I name NetworkConnectionView the code currently look like this:

public partial class NetworkConnectionView : UserContrl

however what I am hoping for is to use the "add new item" option to get a class signature that would look like this:

public partial class NetworkConnectionView : MenuPanel

The main reason for doing this is to inherit the transparency, size and other elements that are used repeatedly but also so I can have a function that has a parameter of MenuPanel. So something like this:

    private void InsertMenuOption(MenuPanel curMenuPanel, string name){
        curMenuPanel.Name = name
        Button menuOptionBtn = new Button()
        // initialization of menuOptionBtn parameters...
        menuOptionsPanel.controls.Add(menuOptionBtn )
        // ...
    }

EDIT:

based on Jimi's comment I was able to export a template however when I do an add item I am still seeing that it is inheriting directly from UserControl. With that said, it loads into my project with the expected size, backcolor etc. I am just not showing that it inherits from MenuPanel instead of UserControl.

Image of the template that is added to the project via "Add Item"

Image of added item signature

Desired signature then MenuPanel inherits from UserControl

Answer 1

I was way over complicating this. What I ended up needing to do was to create a "template" user control that I named MenuPanelView which inherited from user control. after setting all the desired parameters (i.e. size, transparency, etc) I then when into any object that I wanted to inherit from MenuPanelView and simply overwrote the UserControl with MenuPanelView.

So this:

public partial class TestUserControl : UserControl                         
{
    public TestUserControl()
    {  
         InitializeComponent();
    }                                                                          
}

Would just become this (and work as desired):

public partial class TestUserControl : MenuPanelView                         
{
    public TestUserControl()
    {  
         InitializeComponent();
    }                                                                          
}