diff --git a/cmd/kube-apiserver/BUILD b/cmd/kube-apiserver/BUILD
index 7b8f3b22e68..428ccd126e8 100644
--- a/cmd/kube-apiserver/BUILD
+++ b/cmd/kube-apiserver/BUILD
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ go_library(
         "//cmd/kube-apiserver/app:go_default_library",
         "//staging/src/k8s.io/component-base/logs:go_default_library",
         "//staging/src/k8s.io/component-base/metrics/prometheus/clientgo:go_default_library",
+        "//staging/src/k8s.io/component-base/metrics/prometheus/version:go_default_library",
     ],
 )
 
diff --git a/cmd/kube-apiserver/apiserver.go b/cmd/kube-apiserver/apiserver.go
index f2773f54b0f..97ac595d836 100644
--- a/cmd/kube-apiserver/apiserver.go
+++ b/cmd/kube-apiserver/apiserver.go
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import (
 
 	"k8s.io/component-base/logs"
 	_ "k8s.io/component-base/metrics/prometheus/clientgo" // load all the prometheus client-go plugins
+	_ "k8s.io/component-base/metrics/prometheus/version"  // for version metric registration
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kube-apiserver/app"
 )
 
diff --git a/cmd/kube-scheduler/BUILD b/cmd/kube-scheduler/BUILD
index c7d6673f362..01a3b17d80c 100644
--- a/cmd/kube-scheduler/BUILD
+++ b/cmd/kube-scheduler/BUILD
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ go_library(
         "//staging/src/k8s.io/component-base/cli/flag:go_default_library",
         "//staging/src/k8s.io/component-base/logs:go_default_library",
         "//staging/src/k8s.io/component-base/metrics/prometheus/clientgo:go_default_library",
+        "//staging/src/k8s.io/component-base/metrics/prometheus/version:go_default_library",
         "//vendor/github.com/spf13/pflag:go_default_library",
     ],
 )
diff --git a/cmd/kube-scheduler/scheduler.go b/cmd/kube-scheduler/scheduler.go
index 3a19f2b5b1a..eff69614f06 100644
--- a/cmd/kube-scheduler/scheduler.go
+++ b/cmd/kube-scheduler/scheduler.go
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import (
 	cliflag "k8s.io/component-base/cli/flag"
 	"k8s.io/component-base/logs"
 	_ "k8s.io/component-base/metrics/prometheus/clientgo"
+	_ "k8s.io/component-base/metrics/prometheus/version" // for version metric registration
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kube-scheduler/app"
 )