diff --git a/stdlib/importlib/metadata/_meta.pyi b/stdlib/importlib/metadata/_meta.pyi
index e3504fe40..64fefa9a8 100644
--- a/stdlib/importlib/metadata/_meta.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/importlib/metadata/_meta.pyi
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+import sys
 from collections.abc import Iterator
-from typing import Any, Protocol, TypeVar
+from typing import Any, Protocol, TypeVar, overload
 
 _T = TypeVar("_T")
 
@@ -8,15 +9,32 @@ class PackageMetadata(Protocol):
     def __contains__(self, item: str) -> bool: ...
     def __getitem__(self, key: str) -> str: ...
     def __iter__(self) -> Iterator[str]: ...
-    def get_all(self, name: str, failobj: _T = ...) -> list[Any] | _T: ...
     @property
     def json(self) -> dict[str, str | list[str]]: ...
+    @overload
+    def get_all(self, name: str, failobj: None = None) -> list[Any] | None: ...
+    @overload
+    def get_all(self, name: str, failobj: _T) -> list[Any] | _T: ...
+    if sys.version_info >= (3, 12):
+        @overload
+        def get(self, name: str, failobj: None = None) -> str | None: ...
+        @overload
+        def get(self, name: str, failobj: _T) -> _T | str: ...
 
-class SimplePath(Protocol):
-    def joinpath(self) -> SimplePath: ...
-    def parent(self) -> SimplePath: ...
-    def read_text(self) -> str: ...
-    # 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: ...
+if sys.version_info >= (3, 12):
+    class SimplePath(Protocol[_T]):
+        def joinpath(self) -> _T: ...
+        @property
+        def parent(self) -> _T: ...
+        def read_text(self) -> str: ...
+        def __truediv__(self, other: _T | str) -> _T: ...
+
+else:
+    class SimplePath(Protocol):
+        def joinpath(self) -> SimplePath: ...
+        def parent(self) -> SimplePath: ...
+        def read_text(self) -> str: ...
+        # 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/py312.txt b/tests/stubtest_allowlists/py312.txt
index 9ea79b13b..03d66985c 100644
--- a/tests/stubtest_allowlists/py312.txt
+++ b/tests/stubtest_allowlists/py312.txt
@@ -6,10 +6,6 @@ enum.EnumType.__call__
 enum.property.member
 http.client.HTTPConnection.get_proxy_response_headers
 imaplib.IMAP4_SSL.__init__
-importlib.metadata.PackageMetadata.get
-importlib.metadata._meta.PackageMetadata.get
-importlib.metadata._meta.SimplePath.__truediv__
-importlib.metadata._meta.SimplePath.parent
 poplib.POP3_SSL.__init__
 smtplib.SMTP.starttls
 smtplib.SMTP_SSL.__init__