Trader4 is probably right. An oven bake element gets red hot, but it's hidden away inside the oven where it's not going to unintentionally start a fire. A burner element could easily do that if there are overhanging drapes from a window.

You could make such a thing with an electric hot plate and a digital timer.

Nowadays digital timers come with up to 20 ON-OFF cycles that can be set independantly throughout the day. A digital timer with a single on/off cycle would be all you'd need to turn on the electric hot plate for an hour or two each day.

But I've never seen a range timer control any surface elements either.