Using Spot colours in CMYK artwork linked in Illustrator from Photoshop

I need to use a spot black on some packaging. The spot black will be used as a vignette on top of a photograph of the product which is done in Photoshop. I have created the packaging in Illustrator and need to import this file but it needs to have the spot colour intact. So far I have created a PSD with a Spot channel which I thought was the answer but Illustrator can't read PSDs with spot channels. I then saved it as an eps but when I import an eps it only shows a white rectangle as opposed to the actual artwork.
Can anyone help me with this? Thanks!!

Illustrator should be able to read a spot color PSD.
Which version is it?

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