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Will the "pulling bolt" even start threading in when the puller is fully tightened into your crank arm? If you can get a couple of threads in there you might be successful, and the worst you could do would be to strip the crank puller's thread (not the end of the world as crank pullers aren't that expensive).
If it wont even start in the thread, your puller bolt probably has a small unthreaded section on the front of it (like mine does) and shaving this down so that the threaded section is exposed will give you more room.
Just make sure you don't try to unscrew the puller to make room for the bolt, as you really don't want to end up stripping the thread off the crank arm because then you are stuffed.