diff --git a/src/ansiblelint/__main__.py b/src/ansiblelint/__main__.py
index f2312d21e7..482e395fd0 100755
--- a/src/ansiblelint/__main__.py
+++ b/src/ansiblelint/__main__.py
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
 from enrich.console import should_do_markup
 
 from ansiblelint import cli
-from ansiblelint._prerun import check_ansible_presence, prepare_environment
 from ansiblelint.app import App
 from ansiblelint.color import (
     console,
@@ -44,6 +43,7 @@
 from ansiblelint.config import options
 from ansiblelint.constants import ANSIBLE_MISSING_RC, EXIT_CONTROL_C_RC
 from ansiblelint.file_utils import cwd
+from ansiblelint.prerun import check_ansible_presence, prepare_environment
 from ansiblelint.skip_utils import normalize_tag
 from ansiblelint.version import __version__
 
diff --git a/src/ansiblelint/_prerun.py b/src/ansiblelint/prerun.py
similarity index 99%
rename from src/ansiblelint/_prerun.py
rename to src/ansiblelint/prerun.py
index 4d31d2e177..f3591b9d11 100644
--- a/src/ansiblelint/_prerun.py
+++ b/src/ansiblelint/prerun.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+"""Utilities for configuring ansible runtime environment."""
 import logging
 import os
 import pathlib
diff --git a/src/ansiblelint/testing/__init__.py b/src/ansiblelint/testing/__init__.py
index 21d242085c..aa1ae1d58d 100644
--- a/src/ansiblelint/testing/__init__.py
+++ b/src/ansiblelint/testing/__init__.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 import tempfile
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Dict, List, Optional
 
-from ansiblelint._prerun import prepare_environment
+from ansiblelint.prerun import prepare_environment
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     # https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/3240