Define a partition in Quartus for a block that includes tranceivers

In the Pro edition, all periphery resources (including the transceivers) are part of the root_partition (the top-level of your design plus any lower-level core logic that is not isolated into its own design partition). It sounds like you want to perform periphery design reuse. Check out the design block reuse flows here:

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/ug/ug-qpp-block-based-design.pdf