diff --git a/stdlib/importlib/metadata/_meta.pyi b/stdlib/importlib/metadata/_meta.pyi
index 6a7cd858c..e3504fe40 100644
--- a/stdlib/importlib/metadata/_meta.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/importlib/metadata/_meta.pyi
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import sys
 from collections.abc import Iterator
 from typing import Any, Protocol, TypeVar
 
@@ -17,7 +16,7 @@ class SimplePath(Protocol):
     def joinpath(self) -> SimplePath: ...
     def parent(self) -> SimplePath: ...
     def read_text(self) -> str: ...
-    if sys.version_info >= (3, 11):
-        def __truediv__(self) -> SimplePath: ...
-    else:
-        def __div__(self) -> SimplePath: ...
+    # There was a bug in `SimplePath` definition in cpython, see #8451
+    #  Strictly speaking `__div__` was defined in 3.10, not __truediv__,
+    # but it should have always been `__truediv__`.
+    def __truediv__(self) -> SimplePath: ...
diff --git a/tests/stubtest_allowlists/py310.txt b/tests/stubtest_allowlists/py310.txt
index 94a2a810a..726ae7b34 100644
--- a/tests/stubtest_allowlists/py310.txt
+++ b/tests/stubtest_allowlists/py310.txt
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ fractions.Fraction.__new__  # overload is too complicated for stubtest to resolv
 gettext.install
 gettext.translation
 hmac.new  # Stub is a white lie; see comments in the stub
+importlib.metadata._meta.SimplePath.__div__  # See comments
+importlib.metadata._meta.SimplePath.__truediv__  # See comments
 ipaddress.IPv4Interface.hostmask
 ipaddress.IPv6Interface.hostmask
 ipaddress._BaseNetwork.broadcast_address