Invoice Increment ID adjustment for API in Magento 2

Question

I would like to change the increment_id for invoices. I tried this by running the following query:

ALTER TABLE sequence_invoice_1 AUTO_INCREMENT = 504;

This works for the invoice id but it does not work when working through the rest API because the API uses the entity_id column from sales_order table. For some bookkeeping implementation I need to change the entity_id above 500 through the rest API.

How to accomplish to change the value for the next entity_id?