Illustrator vectorize colors to one layer, not to each object?

[Dylan329903210ljr]

I'm having a hard time vectorizing an image to three colors and having each color as one layer, not each vector object as one layer. Do I have to manually merge the layers or is there a fucntion I'm missing? Here is a screen shot. 

I'd like three layers for each color instead of hundreds of them. 

[Monika Gause]

Those are not layers, but just objects.

Do you want them as objects or as layers?

In any case what you can do is: Select oneof the objects and then 

Select > Same > Fill

Then either make a compound path (which will make them into one object)

Or move them to their own layer.