diff --git a/config/default/kustomization.yaml b/config/default/kustomization.yaml
index c491482910..28fbb0669e 100644
--- a/config/default/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/config/default/kustomization.yaml
@@ -6,6 +6,3 @@ resources:
 bases:
 - ../rbac
 - ../manager
-
-patchesStrategicMerge:
-- manager_role_aggregation_patch.yaml
diff --git a/config/default/manager_role_aggregation_patch.yaml b/config/default/manager_role_aggregation_patch.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 8e335f4930..0000000000
--- a/config/default/manager_role_aggregation_patch.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
-kind: ClusterRole
-metadata:
-  name: manager-role
-  labels:
-    cluster.x-k8s.io/aggregate-to-manager: "true"
----
-apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
-kind: ClusterRoleBinding
-metadata:
-  name: manager-rolebinding
-roleRef:
-  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
-  kind: ClusterRole
-  name: capi-system-capi-aggregated-manager-role