Unfortunately that is not going to work. The GUI 'talks' to the Nucleo board via the USB serial port interface. We need to load a program onto the Nucleo that converts the serial commands into I2C reads and writes to the sensor. And that program is specific to the Nucleo F401.
One would think you could just buy a Nucleo-F401RE. They are pretty cheap and available. Mouser or Digikey can ship the next day.
But even that is going to be tricky. We put a GPIO expander on the normal expansion board, and so the Nucleo code only works with the expansion board.
So I'm afraid the only real way to run the GUI is with the P-Nucleo-53L1A1 (F401 and VL53L1 expansion board) and it is $56 dollars from Mouser or Digikey (although I've not checked recently).
You could write your own code. The X-cube software from ST will support your configuration. And there are examples in the downloadable API for the VL53L1. But you won't get the fancy graphs.
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