Let $\mathbb A = (A, +_A)$ be a cancellative, but possibly non-commutative, monoid with identity $0$, and fix an element $x \in A$. Does there always exist a cancellative monoid $\mathbb B = (B, +)$ such that $\mathbb A$ is a submonoid of $\mathbb B$ and $x$ is, say, <strike>left-invertible</strike> invertible in $\mathbb B$ (see Benjamin Steinberg's comment below), i.e. there exists an element $\tilde x \in B$ such that $\tilde x + x = 0$?

It is known from a paper of A. I. Mal'cev [Math. Ann. **113** (1937), No. 1, 686-691] that there exist (finitely generated) cancellative monoids that do *not* embed into a group, but the question here is about an embeddability condition that looks very much weaker.