Good stuff Tassie. It's often difficult to relay (excuse the pun) adequate info for those who are3 inexperienced, without telling the DIY experts how to 'suck eggs'
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You don’t need to separately wire the inner headlights via an internal switch, Beatle Bayly, as the lights only come on with high beam, the same as they do in the Alfa’s normal Carello headlights. While it sometimes makes sense to switch separate driving lights off via a separate switch, if they have covers, you don’t need to do that with the inner high beam lights – you need them to operate whenever high beam is selected.
I think you'll find that legally in Australia, spotlights must be switchable separately from high beam. I guess it's easy to talk the rego guy around that the inner lights are factory, but if he's smart, and you have big wattage bulbs or sealed beams in the inners, he might take some convincing.
I like to turn the spots off when I'm driving in higher traffic areas as it makes for less of a 'cut' when you go to low beam.. On lonelier roads, particularly where roadkill is a risk, I then use the spots.
If you modify the lights to give high and low beam on the outer lights, and make the inners high output spots, then a switch is a good idea. In the 4X4 world, if your covers aren't melting with your spots turned on, then your spots aren't big enough