Display image as GUI question

[VorrAkkagi]

Hi all,
This has been plaguing me for way too long. I've searched docs, etc. and nothing.

I want to be able to put an image at the top of the screen and use it as a permanent part of the GUI, layered over the top of whatever BG image is displayed. I want to then put items on top of that (buttons and a calendar). I'm guessing the hbox would let me put buttons up there on a higher layer? But right now, if I could actually get that top bar loaded as part of the GUI I'd dance a jig in my apartment! (I'd have to watch a vid on how to dance a jig first). I had a lot of things figured out last year, took a break from learning to code, went back to load my previous projects to discover they were all gone. Now I'm starting from scratch again with my learning =(

Thanks for any suggestions!