Smart Object And Action Question

I have a smart object layer in one document and I want to drag it over to another document and record this in an action. If I just drag it over, the action records it as select previous document. Copy and paste doesn't transfer the layer as a smart object.
Is there any way to do this in an action?
Thanks!

The place suggestion worked. It's too bad that it has to be so wasteful on space though. It looks like placing a file makes it a smart object which then contains the original smart object I wanted to transfer over.
Thanks!

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