I don't think there is a table that stores the latest published item information because you can get it by the date and it doesn't maintain the last published date.
You can refer to this thread for more details.
How to get last publish date for an item
One way you can check is by going into the web database and checking the [Items]
table and check the created/updated
columns.
So as described you need to write some custom code to keep this information in the database.
Hope this helps.