A round trip of 1mm uses 6.7 pico seconds. And a pico second as you know is one millionth of one millionth of a second. And the vl53 sensors are only a few dollars.
As much as I'd love the sensor to have accuracy that good, it just isn't going to work.
I'm afraid for your application a dial indicator is still the best way to go.
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