Make Linux reply to certain ARP requsts

I’m trying to pull a certain routing stunt where I want my Linux server to respond to arp requests for 10.0.0.1 on eth0, although

• 10.0.0.1 is not the configured IP for eth0 (in which case the kernel would do this nevertheless) and
• 10.0.0.1 is not routed to some other interface of this server (in which case arp proxying would help).

The effect should be that other devices on eth0 would route packages to 10.0.0.1 to my server, where I can then handle them in PREROUTING and other tables.

Can I do that, preferably without an additional daemon?

As requested, here is my motivation (but note that this question is not about suggestions how to achieve this by different means – I really am interested in knowing if above is possibly, not whether it is sensible :-)).

Assume 10.0.0.1 to be a public IP address, and the only one routed to the machine in question. The system (host) contains a virtual machine (guest). I want guest to believe 10.0.0.1 is his, so giving it a different IP and doing nat is not what I want to do. Instead, I host to

• have another ip address (192.168.0.1), not publicly routed,
• act towards eth0 as if it had 10.0.0.1,
• redirect any access to 10.0.0.1:2222 to 192.168.0.1, i.e. handle it locally,
• route any other traffic to 10.0.0.1 towards the virtual interface that guest is attached to.

This explains the two constraints in the question: The guest machine may not always be up, so the mentioned route will not always be there – this is what rules out Proxy ARP. Also, I cannot assing 10.0.0.1 to eth0, as it is really difficult to make Linux route a package away that is destined to an address that the kernel thinks is local. The local routing table has priority 0 according to ip rule, for instance.