How to overlay an image onto separate layers while maintaining separate layers and adding no layers?

I have a 6400x6400 image that I have divided into 100 640x640 layers. I want to overlay an separate image over the entire 6400x6400 document while making the individual layers hold part of the overlayed image.
An anaology would be this:
Imagine that I have created a giant board (6400x6400) and I have cut it into small pieces, where each piece is it's own layers. I want to put a picture to that entire puzzle, so that each layer holds a part of the picture and the picture is not it's own layer, but made up of the smaller layers.

Here's one way to do it, I added the image in as a new layer, and used Clipping Masks to clip them to the layers.
You can merge them into one layer by selecting both layers, right click and Merge Layers:
Hope this helps!
Julia

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