Zohar Elkayam wrote about the new feature added in Oracle 12c that enables creation of multiple indexes on the same column list (as long as they are different somehow [unique vs. non-unique, b*tree vs. bitmap, etc.] and only one of them is visible).
If the same capability is needed in pre-12c versions: create the new index with the addition of an extra column containing a constant. For example, if the original index is based on (X, Y), then the new index can be based on (X, Y, 1).