Hi Alex,
those 1 to 6 would be a special case where you have tiny cam movement and no animated objects/lights in your scene. The standard procedure would be setting up the scene to render all frames, but with "Every Nth Frame" set to something reasonable (maybe 10), then "Try to load + append" with "Save to file" activated and a file name (accessible by all nodes) and animation activated for the cache.
Then "Load from file" with render settings for production and "Every Nth Frame" set to the required one (usually 1, depending on production workflow).
So all in all the requirements are very different, making it hard to automate things. Maybe you can look into the "Preset" feature of render setup, you could create a "precalc" and a "production" preset for the project.
Btw: Corona still saves into the light cache file using "Iterative" render mode (not "Interactive"), which is a violation of the idea of iterative rendering and can easily destroy a laborious created light cache file if you are not aware. Your post reminded me to report this.
Good Luck