Hi,
I am not sure about what view the section publish functioanlity. But you can update the page dialog to add addition field/link for above.
To show and hide this in the template, you can add a class a property to the page dialog field
granite:hide="${!cqDesign.enableSectionPublishFeatures}
Create design dialog to the page and create a checkbox to set and unset enableSectionPublishFeatures property from page policy of the template.
Arun Patidar