How to manually determine version control metadata for Finder?
Finder does not keep track of versions as it just represents the file system which under HFS+ does not keep versions. 

I don;t see how to do exactly what you want but I think a way that would work is to use version control as used by programmers - I use this for control of my shell and other scripts.
Examples of this are git, mercurial, svn(subversion) with various GUIs available e.g. SourceTree (for all three).

Git and mercurial work by s saving a set of changes across all files in a project which when you need more than one file you will find is needed. This snapshot of files can be tagged with a name e.g. 1.0.0 etc. Each change is individually labelled with a version control assigned name. The version data is kept in metadata in the version control system and not in the files as putting the version number in the files was found not to be useful. The GUI can browse over the file system and can show the change history.