I've encountered a few gamers over the years who used a d10 paired with a d6 (for high/low) in place of a d20.
I suspect that the practice originally evolved for the same reason Gygax talks about in that passage (the old icosahedron dice being numbered 0-9 twice, instead of 1-20), only d6s are more commonplace and roll better than a d4.
Separately, I also remember enjoying the old "D66" tables Games Workshop would include in some of their games to give a linear range of 36 possibilities using a pair of d6s. Reading one as the tens column and one as the digits column, like you would with percentile dice.
