diff --git a/packages/react/src/components/DataTable/DataTable.tsx b/packages/react/src/components/DataTable/DataTable.tsx
index b1dbcd2b82eb..6cf3a59582b3 100644
--- a/packages/react/src/components/DataTable/DataTable.tsx
+++ b/packages/react/src/components/DataTable/DataTable.tsx
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import { getCellId } from './tools/cells';
 import denormalize from './tools/denormalize';
 import { composeEventHandlers } from '../../tools/events';
 import { defaultFilterRows } from './tools/filter';
-import setupGetInstanceId from './tools/instanceId';
+import setupGetInstanceId from '../../tools/setupGetInstanceId';
 import Table from './Table';
 import TableActionList from './TableActionList';
 import TableBatchAction from './TableBatchAction';
diff --git a/packages/react/src/components/DataTable/TableToolbarSearch.tsx b/packages/react/src/components/DataTable/TableToolbarSearch.tsx
index 19e08e809b84..ab7269ac9f88 100644
--- a/packages/react/src/components/DataTable/TableToolbarSearch.tsx
+++ b/packages/react/src/components/DataTable/TableToolbarSearch.tsx
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import React, {
   RefObject,
 } from 'react';
 import Search, { SearchProps } from '../Search';
+import setupGetInstanceId from '../../tools/setupGetInstanceId';
 import { useId } from '../../internal/useId';
 import { usePrefix } from '../../internal/usePrefix';
 import { noopFn } from '../../internal/noopFn';
diff --git a/packages/react/src/components/DataTable/tools/instanceId.js b/packages/react/src/components/DataTable/tools/instanceId.js
deleted file mode 100644
index a1ca4fb462f6..000000000000
--- a/packages/react/src/components/DataTable/tools/instanceId.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Copyright IBM Corp. 2016, 2023
- *
- * This source code is licensed under the Apache-2.0 license found in the
- * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
- */
-
-/**
- * Generic utility to initialize a method that will return a unique instance id
- * for a component.
- */
-const setupGetInstanceId = () => {
-  let instanceId = 0;
-  return function getInstanceId() {
-    return ++instanceId;
-  };
-};
-
-export default setupGetInstanceId;