diff --git a/homeassistant/config.py b/homeassistant/config.py
index 896c9be3653..3fd76c275c2 100644
--- a/homeassistant/config.py
+++ b/homeassistant/config.py
@@ -1458,6 +1458,9 @@ async def async_process_component_config(  # noqa: C901
 
     # Check if the integration has a custom config validator
     config_validator = None
+    # A successful call to async_get_component will prime
+    # the cache for platform_exists to ensure it does no
+    # blocking I/O
     if integration.platform_exists("config") is not False:
         # If the config platform cannot possibly exist, don't try to load it.
         try:
diff --git a/homeassistant/loader.py b/homeassistant/loader.py
index 7873fbd4c74..af15a7acabf 100644
--- a/homeassistant/loader.py
+++ b/homeassistant/loader.py
@@ -900,6 +900,14 @@ class Integration:
             )
             raise ImportError(f"Exception importing {self.pkg_path}") from err
 
+        if self.platform_exists("config"):
+            # Setting up a component always checks if the config
+            # platform exists. Since we may be running in the executor
+            # we will use this opportunity to cache the config platform
+            # as well.
+            with suppress(ImportError):
+                self.get_platform("config")
+
         return cache[self.domain]
 
     async def async_get_platform(self, platform_name: str) -> ModuleType:
diff --git a/tests/test_loader.py b/tests/test_loader.py
index 34104987de4..9552849ac4a 100644
--- a/tests/test_loader.py
+++ b/tests/test_loader.py
@@ -1038,6 +1038,37 @@ async def test_hass_components_use_reported(
         ) in caplog.text
 
 
+async def test_async_get_component_preloads_config(
+    hass: HomeAssistant, caplog: pytest.LogCaptureFixture
+) -> None:
+    """Verify async_get_component will try to preload the config platform."""
+    executor_import_integration = _get_test_integration(
+        hass, "executor_import", True, import_executor=True
+    )
+    assert executor_import_integration.import_executor is True
+
+    assert "homeassistant.components.executor_import" not in sys.modules
+    assert "custom_components.executor_import" not in sys.modules
+
+    with patch(
+        "homeassistant.loader.importlib.import_module"
+    ) as mock_import, patch.object(
+        executor_import_integration, "platform_exists", return_value=True
+    ) as mock_platform_exists:
+        await executor_import_integration.async_get_component()
+
+    assert mock_platform_exists.call_count == 1
+    assert mock_import.call_count == 2
+    assert (
+        mock_import.call_args_list[0][0][0]
+        == "homeassistant.components.executor_import"
+    )
+    assert (
+        mock_import.call_args_list[1][0][0]
+        == "homeassistant.components.executor_import.config"
+    )
+
+
 async def test_async_get_component_deadlock_fallback(
     hass: HomeAssistant, caplog: pytest.LogCaptureFixture
 ) -> None: