Looking to crop an effect to a specific area of video

I have a animation that the creator sloppily forgot to trip out some background white around the edges. I used a luminance key to remove it, but there's other parts of the animation that have white copy, which I still need to retain. How could I do this via FCP?
Thanks,
Jarrod

not quite what i was looking for - the difficulty was that the top layer had to show above the bottom, but the bottom couldn't have the part i fixed. i had to reverse crop the bottom most layer to omit the error showing beneath the top.

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