How do you swap consecutive boxes on a Turing Machine tape?
Here is a possible set of transition to do one move, as you request.
Note that $x$ is to be replaced by $0$ and by $1$, so that each
transition with $x$ is actually a pattern to be replaced by 2
transitions, one with $0$ and the other with $1$, instead of $x$ (so you really have 5 transitions below)
And of course $q_{2,x}$ stands for two states: $q_{2,0}$ and
$q_{2,1}$.

I present things that way so that you know what to do if you can have
more than two disctinct symbols to deal with.

The $*$ is just a wild card, indicating that the content of the tape
does not matter.

This will do the required  exchange, with $0$ or $1$. You end up in
state $q_2$, still pointing to the $a$

$\begin{align}
q_1, a&amp;\to q_{1,a},a,R\\
q_{1,a},x&amp;\to q_{2,x},a,L\\
q_{2,x},*&amp;\to q_2,x,R
\end{align}$

I hope this is clear.

What it does is to note $a$ in the finite state control, by going in state $q_{1,a}$, and then moving Right. There it notes in the finite state control whatever $x$ is found there, a $0$ or a $1$, thus going in state $q_{2,x}$, and write down the $a$ (so it can forget it), and moves back Left.
Back on the left square, there is still an $a$, it does not matter, it can write down the $x$ it memorized in the finite state control, and move Right again, in state $q_2$, so that it is pointing to the $a$ that was moved.

Note that the $*$ could be replaced by $a$. The $*$ is a convenient notation to say that it does not matter, as you could have several symbols other than $a$ to be moved in this way.

$q_2$ is whatever state you need to be in after performing one such permutation.