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Alternately:

Select circle brush, set outer size, paint circle, set inner size, erase circle.

Not that the UI isn't terrible.

How do you align the centres doing it that way? Carefully watch the pixel coordinates in the status bar?

Edit:

Simpler than this or the linked instructions is to use the Ellipse selection tool with shift to select a circle, then do Edit > Stroke Selection.

Still pretty wacky.

One of the recent features I most love in Gimp is "/" to search through the commands.

(More and more graphics programs are adopting it.)

Once you're used to it, you can create the ellipse selection and type "/stroke"...

I guess that unless the Gimp developers change their mind and allow for vector drawing inside of Gimp, it's as comfortable as it can get...