Got together with a potential partner, one covering up electronic background information (8)
I believe the answer is:
metadata
'partner one covering up electronic background information' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'got together with a potential' is the wordplay.
'got together' becomes 'met' ('meet' can be a synonym of 'get together').
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'potential' becomes 'data' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'met'+'a'+'data'='METADATA'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for metadata that I've seen is " computer storage information".)