Laravel, Lost data in Custom Request class

I store some data in a middleware as following:

public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
   //checking above..
    if($this->authed()){
        $request->token= $token; //here store the token in user request
        return $next($request);
    }
    return response('Invalid credentials', 401);
}

then in controller I call a custom request class

//function in controller
public function upload(CoverageValueRequest $request){ //calling a custom request
    dd($request->token);
    dd($request->all());
}

the first dd will give null. However if I changed CoverageValueRequest to Request it will print the token.

P.S: the $request data coming from REST call as JSON format using Content-Type: application/json. I am not sure if this is relevant.

update

I have changed the following in the middleware still same behavior:

$request->merge(['token' => $token]);

can't get the token if CoverageValueRequest but if it is Request then it works.

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