Pin to top WITHOUT changing look/feel of post?

How do i post a blog post which is pinned to the top of the blog WITHOUT making it a featured post. The reason is that featured posts look different than normal posts (and IMHO uglier too) and its just messing up the style of the blog.

And please don't recommend that I keep changing the date of the blog item so that its always the latest one.

I think a feature option "pin to top" would be most useful. Not sure why it doesn't already exist...