Way to merge original TM Disk to changed disk?

Changing Time Machine Disk
I just changed my time machine disk from an external drive attached locally, to a larger external drive attached to another computer.
The Local disk has a folder structure for TM backups and the networked shared drive has a sparse dmg image housing the backup folder structure. When I have both Drives available, I can go back in time to when the first disk started backing up. However, when I eject the original disk, I can only go back in time to when the backups started on the second disk.
I do not want to loose the safety of TM's backups by retiring the original disk. Is there any way to merge the backups from the original disk to the new disk without loosing history?

What if you move the Backup folder to the new disk before you start using it in Time Machine? Actually I suppose you could do it even after since the folders are all named by date. Should get you in the same place? Or is there an index that won't be updated?
Give it a try if you don't mind. Copy the old backups to the other location, eject the old disk and see what you get in TM.
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