Personal opinion coming from a lot of experience wrapping: I think vetwrap and a thin cotton layer like you have pictured is risky. If that little bit of padding were to shift, the vet wrap could tighten on the leg and cause a bandage bow. I’d feel more comfortable with more sheeting, a lower bandage, and elastikon on the top and bottom of the bandage. Or, as others have suggested, a regular standing bandage.
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Agree with the others that if this wrap is supposed to be on constantly that using a regular standing wrap with a quilt and a stretchy cotton bandage is the way to go. Recently my horse had a nasty cut on his pastern and I needed to do a pressure wrap for three weeks. I used press and seal on the edges of the wrap where the moisture might get in not over the whole wrap and it worked beautifully. He was able to be turned out and the wrap stayed dry. I changed it every 36-48 hours.
I had not heard of this for vetwrap (makes sense tho, even being very careful, I’ve had it slip & create pressure where I didn’t want it), but when my horse was hospitalized for 7 weeks, they taught me at the vet school to always do with with Elastikon, as it comes with too much stretch to be safe. Me being me, I also cut the entire roll in half longitudinally when I unroll it, then I have twice as much in each roll when I roll it back up.
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I figured it out by accident wrapping cow feet. When applying direct it would sometimes tear and cause me a giant PITA because no stanchion so I’d be trying to wrap a 2000lb semi-final Holstein as though she were a well-mannered horse. Not fun even when banging material doesn’t rip. Now, tension on a cow foot is irrelevant but I realized it was the tension that was causing it to rip. Aha! Unroll, re-roll and no more tearing plus I found out I was completely in control of the amount of tension I applied. That translated beautifully to horses 
One more Vetrap tip, this one is brand specific. If you can avoid it, don’t buy red. Blue is currently best. Since the manufacturing location changed, the red is complete garbage. This isn’t true of other brands of vetrap type banging material.
You might also have to start doing your own weaning experiments if this injury has now stabilized. Either leaving it unwrapped for an hour per day, and then gradually increasing that. Or switching to a boot (less compression) for turnout time, and then a wrap when stalled. Or something like a Back on Track Quick Wrap that is low compression all the time, but promotes circulation to reduce swelling.
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