diff --git a/cmake/utils.cmake b/cmake/utils.cmake
index 1857547616..da416b4b82 100644
--- a/cmake/utils.cmake
+++ b/cmake/utils.cmake
@@ -216,49 +216,6 @@ function(mayaUsd_get_unittest_target unittest_target unittest_basename)
     set(${unittest_target} "${unittest_name}" PARENT_SCOPE)
 endfunction()
 
-function(mayaUsd_promoteHeaderListWithSubdir)
-    cmake_parse_arguments(PREFIX
-        ""
-        "SUBDIR" # one_value keywords
-        "HEADERS;BASE_PATH" # multi_value keywords
-        ${ARGN}
-    )
-
-    if (PREFIX_HEADERS)
-        set(headerFiles ${PREFIX_HEADERS})
-    else()
-        message(FATAL_ERROR "HEADERS keyword is not specified.")
-    endif()
-
-    set(basePath ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/include)
-    if (PREFIX_BASE_PATH)
-        set(basePath ${basePath}/${PREFIX_BASE_PATH})
-    else()
-        set(basePath ${basePath}/mayaUsd)
-    endif()
-
-    if (PREFIX_SUBDIR)
-        set(basePath ${basePath}/${PREFIX_SUBDIR})
-    endif()
-
-    foreach(header ${headerFiles})
-        set(srcFile ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/${header})
-        set(dstFile ${basePath}/${header})
-
-        set(content "#pragma once\n#include \"${srcFile}\"\n")
-
-        if (NOT EXISTS ${dstFile})
-            message(STATUS "promoting: " ${srcFile})
-            file(WRITE ${dstFile} "${content}")
-        else()
-            file(READ ${dstFile} oldContent)
-            if (NOT "${content}" STREQUAL "${oldContent}")
-                message(STATUS "Promoting ${srcfile}")
-                file(WRITE ${dstFile} "${content}")
-            endif()
-        endif()
-    endforeach()
-endfunction()
 #
 # mayaUsd_copyFiles( <target>
 #                    [DESTINATION <destination>]
diff --git a/lib/usd/utils/CMakeLists.txt b/lib/usd/utils/CMakeLists.txt
index edb7f114b5..f1bc2d916e 100644
--- a/lib/usd/utils/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/lib/usd/utils/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -50,10 +50,11 @@ set(headers
     SIMD.h
 )
 
-mayaUsd_promoteHeaderListWithSubdir( 
-    HEADERS 
+mayaUsd_promoteHeaderList( 
+    HEADERS
         ${headers}
-    BASE_PATH ${TARGET_NAME}
+    BASEDIR
+        ${TARGET_NAME}
 )
 
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------