to me, it seems that adding the object to layer 1 happens to be a mistake. if that's the case, you should be able to remove the object from layer 1, and then add it to layer 2 afterwards.

if you're trying to add attributes of the object to layer 1 and then other attributes to layer 2, you don't understand how layers work. an object can belong to multiple layers, but that just makes things confusing... unless they're render layers, and not display layers.