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IIPeter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

I would hasten to add that "1,000 years to man is a day to God" is prophecy. Whereas it is related to Creation week, it is on top of it.

The key to this understanding is the Sabbath. God rested on the seventh day of Creation week.

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. - Genesis 2:1-3

That is day of Creation we currently are “in” according to Jewish Physicist Gerald Schroeder.

Exodus 20:8 and 11 show that keeping the Sabbath in memory of the Creator/Creation is a commandment of God.

The Sabbath is also prophecy.

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. - Colossians 2:16-17

Keeping that in mind we can see that in God’s prophecy a day is to be understood as 1,000 years to Adamic man.

For instance, He swore to Adam that in the day he ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil he would surely die and Adam died on earth having lived (here) 930 years – Gen 5:5

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. - Genesis 2:17

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. - Genesis 5:5

Adam died in the first of seven days.

We see a day=1,000 years confirmed in Psalms 90:4 and again in 2 Peter 3:8 which you already quoted.

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. - Psalms 90:4

Christ’s millennial reign on earth must be the last day, the Sabbath, the last 1,000 years.

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. - Revelation 20:4

And when we look at ancient writings which were never canonized by the Catholic church, we can see 7000 years appointed to Adamic man was a common belief in the early church.

See below for the Epistle of Barnabas 15:3-5 (not to be confused with the Gospel of Barnabas a late 16th century fraud.) The Epistle of Barnabas dates back to the first few centuries after Christ’s resurrection. It is quoted by Clement of Alexandria and also mentioned by Origen.

“He speaks of the Sabbath at the beginning of the Creation, "And God made in six days the works of His hands and on the seventh day He made an end, and He rested on the seventh day, and He sanctified it. Consider, my children what this signifies: That He made an end in six days. The meaning of it is this: that in six thousand years the Creator will bring all things to an end, for with Him one day is a thousand years. He Himself testifies, saying, Behold the day of the Lord shall be as a thousand years. Therefore children, in six days, that is in six thousand years, all things shall be accomplished. And He rested on the seventh day: He means this, that when His Son shall come He will destroy the season of the wicked one, and will judge the godless, and will change the sun and the moon and the stars, and then He will truly rest on the seventh day.”

We also can see it in 2 Enoch:33 here:

“And I appointed the eighth day also, that the eighth day should be the first-created after my work, and that (the first seven) revolve in the form of the seventh thousand, and that at the beginning of the eighth thousand there should be a time of not-counting, endless, with neither years nor months nor weeks nor days nor hours.”

I agree with these early Christians, that the 1,000 years/1 day is part of prophecy and that Adamic man (who was banished to mortality at the top of Genesis 4) was appointed a total of 7,000 years.

God's Name is I AM.