diff --git a/core/dbt/constants.py b/core/dbt/constants.py
index feaf0957746..20dd8519855 100644
--- a/core/dbt/constants.py
+++ b/core/dbt/constants.py
@@ -15,5 +15,6 @@
 PACKAGE_LOCK_FILE_NAME = "package-lock.yml"
 MANIFEST_FILE_NAME = "manifest.json"
 SEMANTIC_MANIFEST_FILE_NAME = "semantic_manifest.json"
+TIME_SPINE_MODEL_NAME = "metricflow_time_spine"
 PARTIAL_PARSE_FILE_NAME = "partial_parse.msgpack"
 PACKAGE_LOCK_HASH_KEY = "sha1_hash"
diff --git a/core/dbt/contracts/graph/semantic_manifest.py b/core/dbt/contracts/graph/semantic_manifest.py
index cf268571425..8ff68198384 100644
--- a/core/dbt/contracts/graph/semantic_manifest.py
+++ b/core/dbt/contracts/graph/semantic_manifest.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
     SemanticManifestValidator,
 )
 
+from dbt.constants import TIME_SPINE_MODEL_NAME
 from dbt.events.types import SemanticValidationFailure
 from dbt.exceptions import ParsingError
 from dbt_common.clients.system import write_file
@@ -82,8 +83,7 @@ def _get_pydantic_semantic_manifest(self) -> PydanticSemanticManifest:
         # Look for time-spine table model and create time spine table configuration
         if self.manifest.semantic_models:
             # Get model for time_spine_table
-            time_spine_model_name = "metricflow_time_spine"
-            model = self.manifest.ref_lookup.find(time_spine_model_name, None, None, self.manifest)
+            model = self.manifest.ref_lookup.find(TIME_SPINE_MODEL_NAME, None, None, self.manifest)
             if not model:
                 raise ParsingError(
                     "The semantic layer requires a 'metricflow_time_spine' model in the project, but none was found. "