In theory you could do that but you're now using double the storage and seems wasteful to me.  I just created the VM, went through macOS configuration (without adding and appleid) and then copied the app file from the host machine (HM) to the VM applications folder.  It just worked.  I also mount the folder on the HM which has the company file on the VM and just run the company from there so it gets backed up as normal.

I even set up the VM to autologin to the user created during VM setup and autolaunch the company so once I start the VM I just wait a minute and can start work.