If you click on Vert Colors it over rides your Preview Scene Settings and puts a low res sunset environment into the viewer and this cannot be turned off at all.
If you turn off vert colors it remains.
You need to close down the model viewer and re open it to get it back to using your default Preview Scene Settings.
In my preview I have an empty background all black.
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