Blues captain Isabelle Kelly and Davis approached referee Belinda Sharpe to lodge a formal complaint during the first half of Thursday night's 32-12 game-one win over Queensland in Brisbane.
Davis was unsure which player had gouged her but first gestured to her eye following a hit from Maroons forwards Keilee Joseph and Romy Teitzel just before Kelly scored the Blues' second try.
Sharpe put the incident on report without naming a specific alleged perpetrator, but at full-time Davis was adamant she had been gouged.
"I've never felt it in a game. I felt an eye gouge," she said.
"It's the Origin arena, things happen. There's a difference when it's incidental than on purpose. I hope it doesn't happen."
The game had still been in the balance with NSW 10-6 ahead when Kelly and Davis approached Sharpe to lodge their complaint.
Kelly insisted such an incident would not have distracted her Sydney Roosters teammate from her pivotal role as starting No.9.
"If you know Keeley, you know that's not going to rattle her," she said.
"I told any of the girls to come to me with anything if they need to and that's exactly what I did, put my players first."
Pointing to evidence of Davis's resilience, Roosters and new Blues coach John Strange revealed the 24-year-old had played on after another alleged incident in the 2024 Origin series.
"She told us she got bit last year," Strange said.
It left Kelly to approach Davis before this year's series and encourage her not to stay quiet if any foul play happened in the second annual three-match series.
"I said, 'If anything happens this time, you make sure you tell me'," Kelly said.
"She's a professional Keeley, she's been great. I thought she was great tonight as well. I knew it wasn't going to affect her."
Davis finished with 12 tackles and 39 run metres from her 41 minutes at hooker and said she was able to quickly move on from the eye-gouging incident mid-game.
"It's like an error, you've got to be a goldfish and all the best players are goldfish about things that they don't want to remember," she said.
"And even good things, you just have to keep your focus on the next job."
