Initial sumbit of the hack:
Embedding dock-to-dash in the top panel
I thought this might be an interesting feature to have.
I wanted to embed the dash into the top panel to make better use of space available. My hack works without crashing on gnome-shell 3.14.x but I am more or less certain there may be better ways to accomplish this. I use moveclock extension/borrow code to move the clock to the right to create more room in the middle.