I googled many times and found only one solution to add custom intermediate model for two model having relation through 3rd model. And I applied as usual as suggested but still getting this issue:
can't include the ManyToManyField field 'terms' because 'terms' manually specifies a 'through' model
class Term(models.Model):
    class Meta:
        db_table = "tbl_term"
    name = models.CharField(max_length=32)
class Post(models.Model):
    class Meta:
        db_table = "tbl_post"
    title = models.CharField(max_length=96)
    content = models.TextField()
    terms = models.ManyToManyField("Term", through="TermRelation")
class TermRelation(models.Model):
    class Meta:
        db_table = "tbl_term_relation"
    term = models.ForeignKey("Term", db_column="id_term")
    post = models.ForeignKey("Post", db_column="id_post")
@admin.register(Term)
class AdminTerm(admin.ModelAdmin):
    fieldsets = [
        (None, {'fields': ['name']})
    ]
@admin.register(Post)
class AdminPost(admin.ModelAdmin):
    fieldsets = [
        (None, {'fields':['title', 'content', 'terms']})
    ]
You have to change the admin to include InlineModelAdmin objects
So, change
class AdminPost(admin.ModelAdmin):
    fieldsets = [
        (None, {'fields':['title', 'content', 'terms']})
    ]
to
class TermInlineAdmin(admin.TabularInline):
    model = Post.terms.through
class AdminPost(admin.ModelAdmin):
    fieldsets = [
        (None, {'fields':['title', 'content']})
    ]
    inlines = (TermInlineAdmin,)
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