Davies, who took a double victory last weekend at Magny-Cours, has been a factory Ducati rider since 2014, and has been the only rider capable of regularly challenging Kawasaki for the past two seasons.

The 29-year-old Welshman remains under contract to Ducati for another two seasons, and while he is committed to the Borgo Panigale firm's WSBK squad for 2017, he would theoretically be free to switch to MotoGP in 2018.

However, Davies said only a full factory-spec machine would be of interest in such a scenario.

"Honestly, I'm not really interested to go there [MotoGP] in a satellite situation," he told Motorsport.com during a recent visit to the Hungaroring, where he was a guest driver in the Audi TT Cup.

"For me, to give myself the best chance, I would like a factory bike in a satellite team, or something like that.

"Otherwise, it really doesn't make much sense in my mind to move to a championship to ride a bike that would never win. Even if you have your best day, you still might only finish top 10.

"For me, the interesting thing is to ride the best bike possible and really test myself."

Asked if the prospect of a seat with Pramac on the latest version of Ducati's Desmosedici bike would appeal, Davies replied: "Yeah, Pramac is a really good option because they are a satellite team but with a very close connection with Ducati.

"The rumour for next year is they will skip the GP16 and get immediately the GP17 [for one of its riders], so that's the kind of situation perfect for a rider because you know you've got basically the same bike as the factory team.

"Anyway, it's all theoretical and the right opportunity needs to come along. We'll see, it depends on next year."

Davies made three MotoGP starts for Pramac back in 2007, when he replaced injured regular rider Alex Hofmann.

"There's definitely a place for one of us in MotoGP"

In a recent Motorsport.com interview, Eugene Laverty - who switches back to World Superbikes from MotoGP next year - said he believes Davies would be a match for anyone in the Grand Prix field barring the established 'big three' of Valentino Rossi, Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo.

When those comments were relayed to him, Davies jested: "Yeah, give me a MotoGP bike and we'll see!"

He added: "I'm not kidding myself - I know Valentino and Marquez in particular are phenomenal.

"But, outside of that, obviously also Lorenzo on his day, I believe 100 percent there is a place for a top Superbike rider in MotoGP.

"Everybody has that day where everything comes together and the potential to score a big result is there, but obviously in MotoGP you need the opportunity.

"There are too many average bikes compared to the top bikes, there are not enough factory bikes, so it would be nice to test myself one day and see if what I believe is correct."

Interview by David Gruz