Shape inside another shape - is this masking?

Hi there,
For so long now, if I have been in a scenario where I would like to have a shape overlap another shape, but be kept inside of it, I have selected both shapes, and masked them - Then had to copy the base shape and paste it in place again to keep the original look. This to me just seems very wrong. I hope I have explained this clearly. Is there another way of doing this? Thanks you for your time.
I'm on Illustrator CS3 by the way.

In Cs 5 nd later there is a Draw Inside feature
1. you cut the object you wish to paste inside the other object.
2. You then select the object you wish to paste the first object into
3. You go to the bottomof the toolbar and select Draw Inside to make it the object to be pasted into.
4. You then paste the object while the draw inside object is still selected.
5. You can reposition the obect paste into if you desire a different relative position.
The two objects the one on the right Iam going to paste into the one on the left
Bleow is the object I made a draw inside target object
Here is the result after the Paste command I can still reposition or fine tune the position of the pasted object

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