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[#welcome] to the hobby and this forum. Laying a track directly onto the plywood base is not really advisable. First of all, your trains will make a heck of a noise without any type of sound deadening, Second, unless you model a cheap-skate branchline where tracks are nearly submerged in dirt, railroads build up a roadbed of ballast to hold the ties in place and to drain of water from the ties to prevent rot. This leaves you with the options of either leaving the roadbed on the track pieces or snapping it of and lay the track on cork roadbed. As the track is already supplied with a roadbed, I´d stick with that. I bet it can be made look more natural by re-ballasting it.
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