Personally I would syphon off the top layer until you expose the tetra plant complete (dont worry if you leave a few scatterings of your gravel). Then cap the TPC with a gravel tidy (people nowadays use plastic greenhouse shading available from most garden centres). And cover with your ADA. Not only will that give you an excellent substrate, it will not waste the TPC that you have already paid for, and will reduce the already high cost of ADA soil
As a refinement to the above, once you have done your syphoning, drain all the water out. You can do this by draining down to the substrate layer and then scraping a small patch of the TPC out of the way to expose the bottom of the tank, raising it one end so the remaining water runs to that end, then draining the last bit of water out. Next, using a scaping tool (bit like a triangular fish slice) scrape the TPC back from all four edges of the tank so that you have a level layer but with an inch or two gap all the way around, and wipe around with a cloth. Then place your gravel tidy (greenhouse shading) over the TPC. This will leave an "edge" to fill in with the ADA and then add the rest, so that it does not look like one layer on top of another, but looks like ALL your substrate is ADA.
Hope this helps.