diff --git a/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js b/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js
index 108b11a2f960d2..f31bc15f2a13e4 100644
--- a/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js
+++ b/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js
@@ -104,9 +104,6 @@ process.domain = null;
 }
 process._exiting = false;
 
-// process.config is serialized config.gypi
-const nativeModule = internalBinding('builtins');
-
 // TODO(@jasnell): Once this has gone through one full major
 // release cycle, remove the Proxy and setter and update the
 // getter to either return a read-only object or always return
@@ -162,9 +159,12 @@ const deprecationHandler = {
   }
 };
 
+// process.config is serialized config.gypi
+const binding = internalBinding('builtins');
+
 // eslint-disable-next-line node-core/prefer-primordials
 let processConfig = new Proxy(
-  JSONParse(nativeModule.config),
+  JSONParse(binding.config),
   deprecationHandler);
 
 ObjectDefineProperty(process, 'config', {
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ const features = {
   // This needs to be dynamic because --no-node-snapshot disables the
   // code cache even if the binary is built with embedded code cache.
   get cached_builtins() {
-    return nativeModule.hasCachedBuiltins();
+    return binding.hasCachedBuiltins();
   }
 };