At its' simplest, would something along the lines of the following not suffice...

my $module = $ver > 2 ? 'Config' : 'Settings';
require $module;

sub get_conf_val {
    no strict qw/refs/;
    return ${"$module\::CONFIG"}{shift()};
}

my $val = get_conf_val('conf_data_name');
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