diff --git a/packages/vite-node/src/client.ts b/packages/vite-node/src/client.ts
index 0b32672bc..0d721405f 100644
--- a/packages/vite-node/src/client.ts
+++ b/packages/vite-node/src/client.ts
@@ -214,12 +214,6 @@ export class ViteNodeRunner {
     if (importee && id.startsWith(VALID_ID_PREFIX))
       importee = undefined
     id = normalizeRequestId(id, this.options.base)
-    // should be checked after normalization
-    // provide importer only for relative and absolute paths
-    // paths like "src/user" are valid for transformRequest, but they will be resolved incorrectly,
-    // if importer is provided - because they will be treated as relative to the importer instead of root
-    if (!id.startsWith('/') && !id.startsWith('./') && !id.startsWith('../'))
-      importee = undefined
     if (!this.shouldResolveId(id))
       return [id, id]
     const { path, exists } = toFilePath(id, this.root)
diff --git a/test/core/test/imports.test.ts b/test/core/test/imports.test.ts
index 2fe0b6215..874f236b0 100644
--- a/test/core/test/imports.test.ts
+++ b/test/core/test/imports.test.ts
@@ -46,13 +46,6 @@ test('dynamic absolute with extension mport works', async () => {
   expect(stringTimeoutMod).toBe(variableTimeoutMod)
 })
 
-test('dynamic baseUrl import works', async () => {
-  const staticMod = await import('./../src/timeout')
-  // @ts-expect-error there is no tsconfig in test/core to handle baseUrl
-  const dynamicMod = await import('src/timeout')
-  expect(staticMod).toBe(dynamicMod)
-})
-
 test('data with dynamic import works', async () => {
   const dataUri = 'data:text/javascript;charset=utf-8,export default "hi"'
   const { default: hi } = await import(dataUri)