Park's original one-page paper (here) was more concerned with dealing with heteroskedasticity, rather than test for its existence. So given heteroskedasticity, Park assumes a specific form of it, namely a log-linear relationship between the variance of the error term and one regressor
$$\sigma^2_{\epsilon _i} = \sigma^2X_i^{\gamma}e^{u_i}$$
$$\Rightarrow \ln \sigma^2_{\epsilon _i} = \ln\sigma^2 + \gamma \ln X_i + u_i$$
To estimate this relationship, one needs to obtain a data series for $\ln \sigma^2_{\epsilon _i}$. Park suggested using the residuals from the original regression as a substitute, i.e.
$$\ln \sigma^2_{\epsilon _i} \approx \ln (\hat \epsilon^2_{1i})$$
assume $u_i$ is "nicely behaved" and estimate the regression
$$\ln (\hat \epsilon^2_{1i})= a + \gamma \ln X_i + u_i$$
Then, in order to deal with heteroskedasticity, one would transform the original equation by dividing by $X^{\hat \gamma/2}$
"Park's test" is to view instead the auxiliary regression as a test for heteroskedasticity, where if $\hat \gamma$ appears statistically significant, the null hypothesis of no-heteroskedasticity is rejected. In any case, I don't see where the second regression you mention in the question comes into play.