Cut down ends in oak dowels

Nice video. Not what I'm looking for. Maybe I need to actually explain what I'm trying to accomplish instead of letting you all guessing. I'm trying to build a gliding ottoman. Some of the components are dowels that span vertical and horizontal for structural purposes. By looking at the one I'm trying to match I can tell they aren't running the entire 5/8" and 7/8" dowels into the wood. They obviously have shoulder cuts in the dowels so you don't see the actual hole in the wood which the dowel fit into. I don't need to cut a 5/8" dowel don't to 3/8". It was just an example. I'm most likely going to shave the diameter down 1/8". So I wanted to know what's the easiest way to achieve these shoulders using a table saw. Like I said before the length of the dowels will be less than a foot long and won't extend over the side of the table saw. I was now thinking of using a v groove block (duh me) which I'd cut to a short length so I can grab the opposit end of the dowel and spin as its cutting. My question is can I use the v groove block with the miter gauge along with the rip fence as a stop or will that cause a binding and potential kickback? I'd only be cutting into the dowel a 1/16" so it wouldn't cause a lot of binding.