Referencing Keys in Nitrokey HSM 2 within windows certificate management

I am trying to make a windows server 2019 installation to use Nitrokey HSM2 as a backend for storing the secret keys.

The HSM2 is successfully set up and recognized by the openSC minidriver (I used the sc-hsm-minidriver-test.exe to verify and and only the tests after PIN entry failed, 7 in total. For the OpenSC pkcs11-tool however, suplying the PIN works fine).

I could also import the certificate that was generated from a CSR created using SmartCardShell into the certificate management using the mmc certificate snap-in ( Working with Certificates - WCF | Microsoft Learn ).

However it doesn’t find the private key reference for the certificate, as when I use CertUtil, to list the certificates, I get “Certificate and private key were not found“ for the certificate imported.

Any ideas on how I could make that work?

I have to add: whenecer I run the sc-hsm-minidriver-test.exe it seems the PIN gets blocked.