Technically a low pass filter isn't a standard bass control. It passes all frequencies below the filter cut-off (and actually some above, but it's rolling them off at the filter slope rate and will already be 3dB down at the filter frequency). A normal bass control is typically a shelving boost/cut, which only affects the bass frequencies. But a low pass filter should do what you want in terms of just leaving most off the bass and low mids, especially when paired with that boost to get the level up.
A kick drum normally has a low component and then a high-mid component from the beater that provides some definition to the sound in the 2-4kHz region. I don't know how much of those frequencies your weighted speaker produces, but I wonder if you could somehow pair the low-passed speaker with maybe a high-passed piezo signal to more closely mimic a real kick sound.
Again it's something you could test quickly out in a DAW after recording the two signals to see whether it would work at all.