[StepActions] when using a stepTemplate the ref gets removed

[garethjevans]

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There appears to be a bug when using StepActions and stepTemplate, the ref gets removed during the merge command.

This should probably also be backported to 0.56 LTS

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/kind bug

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cc @chitrangpatel

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/lgtm

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@chitrangpatel: new pull request created: #7814

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