The Interaction Controller is triggering events it's not supposed to

I'm making a top-down 2D game and I have written my own controller for the player prefab which automatically moves the Interaction Controller one tile in front of the character whenever it moves.

The player gameobject contains a gameobject called "IC" in which the interaction controller is added by ORK and the character controller keeps this object always in front of the player.

The player has a 2D collider around itself, the interaction controller prefab has one too.

If I make an event that is supposed to be activated by the IC (Interact mode) everything works fine: the character gets in range and then the event only activates itself when the interaction button is pressed.

Problems arise when I try to make a trigger enter event, for example an area change that is supposed to activate only when the player walks on it.
In this case the event gets activated prematurely by the IC's collider, rather than the player.

I tried to change the "is trigger" setting of the colliders but I couldn't find a combination that managed to work properly: disabling the trigger on the IC collider does prevent the "trigger enter" events from triggering but it also completely prevents Interaction events from being triggered, which I do not want to happen.

How do I set this up properly?