diff --git a/stdlib/dataclasses.pyi b/stdlib/dataclasses.pyi
index 519da6d31dbe..bf824abaf4e5 100644
--- a/stdlib/dataclasses.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/dataclasses.pyi
@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ class _MISSING_TYPE: ...
 MISSING: _MISSING_TYPE
 
 if sys.version_info >= (3, 10):
-    class _KW_ONLY_TYPE: ...
-    KW_ONLY: _KW_ONLY_TYPE
+    class KW_ONLY: ...
 
 @overload
 def asdict(obj: Any) -> Dict[str, Any]: ...
diff --git a/tests/stubtest_allowlists/py310.txt b/tests/stubtest_allowlists/py310.txt
index 0adf00e64a73..e7f1884e7291 100644
--- a/tests/stubtest_allowlists/py310.txt
+++ b/tests/stubtest_allowlists/py310.txt
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ collections.abc.KeysView.__reversed__
 collections.abc.ValuesView.__reversed__
 contextvars.Context.__init__  # Default C __init__ signature is wrong
 dataclasses.field
+dataclasses.KW_ONLY
 dummy_threading
 enum.Enum._generate_next_value_
 fractions.Fraction.__new__  # overload is too complicated for stubtest to resolve