One of options is to manipulate priority (sequence), you can add sequence to your view like this:
<record model="ir.ui.view" id="some_id">
<field name="name">some.name</field>
<field name="model">some.model</field>
<field eval="1" name="priority"/>
<field name="arch" type="xml">
. . . .
lower number of priority means higher priority. AFAIK it should not be negative, so Highest priority is 0 then. so if you set your view's priority to 0 or 1, then it'll become default one.
See documentation for "priority":
https://www.odoo.com/documentation/8.0/reference/views.html#common-structure