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This certificate is only entered if your income is not already low enough for an automatic exemption.
You enter your Exemption Certificate Number (ECN) under the Health Insurance tab, which completes Form 8965. If your income is low enough, you don't need an exemption from the Marketplace and so would not enter an unnecessary ECN.
If you received an ECN, but didn't need one in the first place, that is fine. But you will not enter an exemption to a penalty that you don't have.
Follow these steps to enter the ECN if you are required to have one:
On the next screen, you will see one of the following (based on your income):
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