Allow merge_asof on first column of like-levelled MultiIndexes
This change essentially allows you to merge_asof on the first level of a MultiIndex, treating the levels after the first as additional 'by' columns. It is possible to do the reset_index/set_index oneself but I think this is a nice syntax and a fairly natural thing to do. Would you be interested in incorporating something like this into pandas?

- [x] tests added / passed
- [x] passes `black pandas`
- [x] passes `git diff upstream/master -u -- "*.py" | flake8 --diff`
- [ ] whatsnew entry

thanks for the PR, could you also create an issue with brief description of the problem? or refer to an existing issue? @tmct  Can you provide use cases for this?