diff --git a/pkg/apimachinery/apis/common/v0alpha1/unstructured.go b/pkg/apimachinery/apis/common/v0alpha1/unstructured.go
index 5f713a1471d..e779c5fafd3 100644
--- a/pkg/apimachinery/apis/common/v0alpha1/unstructured.go
+++ b/pkg/apimachinery/apis/common/v0alpha1/unstructured.go
@@ -124,7 +124,3 @@ func (u *Unstructured) GetNestedInt64(fields ...string) int64 {
 	}
 	return val
 }
-
-func (u *Unstructured) ToKubernetesObject() *unstructured.Unstructured {
-	return &unstructured.Unstructured{Object: u.Object}
-}