You will need to make that top face of the base into a group or component and also introduce a new layer where you put it like Wodan says. See the file below (open the layer dialog to see what's happening).

Also I hid all the edges of the base and top components where they match. The edge now you see in scene 1 is the edge of that new group I created inside the base component.

Copanar faces edges issue.skp