Not to worry, hunted around a bit and found the answer HERE
Associating WPF apps to UWP Projects
Previously I wrote this in my Wordpress blog:
<<you can write your desktop apps using WPF in order to tweak them and perfect them ready for uploading to the Windows Store. However, before you can you must first right click on the solution and add new project. This should be a UWP blank app. There is no need to write any code for this project, just right click on the project and associate it with the app you have created in WPF. Once you have done this right click on the UWP project that you have added and scroll down to publish and then create Windows Store App Package. This will create a package that can be uploaded to the Windows Store (.appxupload, appxbundle, etc).>>
I wrote the above in October 2019 and have been away from coding since. I have now written a new WPF app and tried to replicate the above. I created the second project (UWP) but the option to associate the first project has been removed (thankyou Microsoft). How do I now publish it to the MS Store?