I've found a work-around that at least works in Gnome Classic with arandr. (Haven't tested it with Unity). Executing the command "xrandr -s 0" before starting or applying the change in arandr gives me the ability to overlay the screens without it snapping back to side by side when the setting is applied. xrandr -s 0 sets the size to size-index 0. I'm not sure why this seems to override the behaviour of returning to side-by- side layout.
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