Mate in capital hugging daughter in top spot, perhaps (10)
I believe the answer is:
palindrome
'top spot perhaps' is the definition.
('top spot' is a palindrome)
'mate in capital hugging daughter' is the wordplay.
'mate' becomes 'pal' (I've seen this before).
'capital hugging daughter' becomes 'drome' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'pal'+'in'+'drome'='PALINDROME'
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for palindrome that I've seen before include "E.g. mum, dad" , "Mum, perhaps" , "Word(s) reading the same forward and back" , "Mum, say" , "Mum, Dad or Sis" .)