list manipulation - subtraction of Y values

I have two lists (first one is data, second one is background) of files that are composed of X and Y coordinates. X coordinates are the same for both lists. I would like to subtract the y coordinates of corresponding files (A1-A2, B1-B2, etc) for whole data set. Is there a quick way to do it? data1 is composed of {a1.txt, a2.txt} and data2 of{b1.txt,b2.txt}

I can only imagine doing a small for loop in which I use following code:

data1[[1]][[All, 2]] - data2[[1]][[All, 2]]

and then I MapThread X and new Y coordinate. data1[[1]]

 X  Y1
0.008362    837448.1111
0.028126    23665.24245
0.048397    2174.605716
0.068667    528.9201242
0.088938    205.8876254
0.109208    98.85484604

0.129477    65.01622775
0.149746    43.40275276
0.170015    35.06444229
0.190282    25.51391261
0.200416    21.10450766

data2[[1]]

X   Y4
0.008362    0.008166246
0.028126    0.02746757

0.048397    0.047264026
0.068667    0.067059506
0.088938    0.086855961
0.109208    0.106651441
0.129477    0.126445943
0.149746    0.146240446
0.170015    0.166034949
0.190282    0.185827498
0.200416    0.195724261

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