Place an InDesign spread

Is there a method or a script that can place InDesign SPREADS into a single frame in another InDesign document? I know that I can print to PDF with Spreads turned on and place place the PDF spreads into InDesign, but I've not been able to figure out a way to do it with InDesign files other than placing one InDesign page at a time and grouping them before putting them inside a frame.

You can use the technique I Bob described here:
http://indesignsecrets.com/easily-add-captions-to-graphics-frames.php
except that you'd create a spread-sized rectangle and then add two page-sized rectangles in it. Finally, placing each page into each of the internal rectangles.
Not so different from what you're doing now, but the resulting structure is a rectangle with two pasted-in rectangles each containing a page.
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