The 20-year-old made his debut in the series at the second event of the year at Croft last month but his car was substantially damaged in a six-car pile up in race two.
Although the car was rebuilt in time for Oakes to take part in last week's test at Rockingham, he has elected to skip the Italian round in order to catch up on the development of his Eurotek Motorsport-run Dallara Mercedes.
"It seems like the sensible thing to do," he said. "Not doing Monza gives us time to prepare for the race at Rockingham the week after.
"In terms of the championship, we're on the back foot now and I think we'd simply be making up the numbers if we went to Italy.
"We beat several of the bigger teams at Croft but I don't want to be aiming just for finishes, I want to be winning."
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