That would be awesome. Yeah, control panels are used as part of game overlays and it's even possible to animate the control panel joysticks/buttons/lights. You can see examples of how we're using the control panel images at the web site we have on my signature.
Here's one for Street Fighter Champion edition, where the CPO was rendered in 3D by Papa Shine and embedded into the overlay:
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