Using your lathe to make the dished out cavities is a good idea but maybe cut independent pieces with the lathe then inlay those pieces into your ledge.
1) Using pieces of maybe accent wood cut the dished out area with the lathe on one side and leave the other side flat.
2) Use external inlay techniques to cut the pattern and cavity in your ledge piece. We put the procedure in our book "the Router" page 72,73 called plaque inlaying.
This might be a good idea for a future router tip.
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