Here are all the WGL functions
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/opengl/wgl-functions

The function of interest is
wglMakeCurrent
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wingdi/nf-wingdi-wglmakecurrent

The line of interest is
"A thread must set a current rendering context before calling any OpenGL functions. Otherwise, all OpenGL calls are ignored."

so, what I recommend is to call
wglMakeCurrent(NULL, NULL); (or whatever the Qt equivalent is.)
from your GUI thread.

Then, in your other thread, make a context current by calling.
wglMakeCurrent(hdc, glcontext); (or whatever the Qt equivalent is.)
and now, you can make gl funciton calls.

When you are finished, call
wglMakeCurrent(NULL, NULL);
then, release the GL context, destroy the GL context and all that stuff.