diff --git a/docs/3.api/2.components/2.nuxt-page.md b/docs/3.api/2.components/2.nuxt-page.md
index 18c5d5b776..952d256a88 100644
--- a/docs/3.api/2.components/2.nuxt-page.md
+++ b/docs/3.api/2.components/2.nuxt-page.md
@@ -46,6 +46,23 @@ definePageMeta({
 
 :button-link[Open on StackBlitz]{href="https://stackblitz.com/github/nuxt/nuxt/tree/main/examples/routing/pages?file=app.vue" blank}
 
+## Accessing a page's component ref
+
+To get the ref of a page component, access it through `ref.value.pageRef`
+
+````html
+<template>
+    <NuxtPage ref="page" />
+</template>
+
+<script setup lang="ts">
+const page = ref()
+function logFoo () {
+  page.value.pageRef.foo()
+}
+</script>
+````
+
 ## Custom Props
 
 In addition, `NuxtPage` also accepts custom props that you may need to pass further down the hierarchy. These custom props are accessible via `attrs` in the Nuxt app.
diff --git a/packages/nuxt/src/pages/runtime/page.ts b/packages/nuxt/src/pages/runtime/page.ts
index d906c008f8..c8e320acce 100644
--- a/packages/nuxt/src/pages/runtime/page.ts
+++ b/packages/nuxt/src/pages/runtime/page.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { Suspense, Transition, computed, defineComponent, h, nextTick, onMounted, provide, reactive } from 'vue'
+import { Suspense, Transition, computed, defineComponent, h, nextTick, onMounted, provide, reactive, ref } from 'vue'
 import type { KeepAliveProps, TransitionProps, VNode } from 'vue'
 import { RouterView } from '#vue-router'
 import { defu } from 'defu'
@@ -34,8 +34,12 @@ export default defineComponent({
       default: null
     }
   },
-  setup (props, { attrs }) {
+  setup (props, { attrs, expose }) {
     const nuxtApp = useNuxtApp()
+    const pageRef = ref()
+
+    expose({ pageRef })
+
     return () => {
       return h(RouterView, { name: props.name, route: props.route, ...attrs }, {
         default: (routeProps: RouterViewSlotProps) => {
@@ -57,7 +61,7 @@ export default defineComponent({
               suspensible: true,
               onPending: () => nuxtApp.callHook('page:start', routeProps.Component),
               onResolve: () => { nextTick(() => nuxtApp.callHook('page:finish', routeProps.Component).finally(done)) }
-            }, { default: () => h(RouteProvider, { key, routeProps, pageKey: key, hasTransition } as {}) })
+            }, { default: () => h(RouteProvider, { key, routeProps, pageKey: key, hasTransition, pageRef } as {}) })
             )).default()
         }
       })
@@ -81,7 +85,7 @@ const RouteProvider = defineComponent({
   name: 'RouteProvider',
   // TODO: Type props
   // eslint-disable-next-line vue/require-prop-types
-  props: ['routeProps', 'pageKey', 'hasTransition'],
+  props: ['routeProps', 'pageKey', 'hasTransition', 'pageRef'],
   setup (props) {
     // Prevent reactivity when the page will be rerendered in a different suspense fork
     // eslint-disable-next-line vue/no-setup-props-destructure
@@ -111,11 +115,11 @@ const RouteProvider = defineComponent({
 
     return () => {
       if (process.dev && process.client) {
-        vnode = h(props.routeProps.Component)
+        vnode = h(props.routeProps.Component, { ref: props.pageRef })
         return vnode
       }
 
-      return h(props.routeProps.Component)
+      return h(props.routeProps.Component, { ref: props.pageRef })
     }
   }
 })
diff --git a/test/basic.test.ts b/test/basic.test.ts
index 01a320ada1..a65289f285 100644
--- a/test/basic.test.ts
+++ b/test/basic.test.ts
@@ -326,6 +326,27 @@ describe('pages', () => {
     await expectNoClientErrors('/client-only-explicit-import')
   })
 
+  it('/wrapper-expose/page', async () => {
+    await expectNoClientErrors('/wrapper-expose/page')
+    let lastLog: string|undefined
+    const page = await createPage('/wrapper-expose/page')
+    page.on('console', (log) => {
+      lastLog = log.text()
+    })
+    page.on('pageerror', (log) => {
+      lastLog = log.message
+    })
+    await page.waitForLoadState('networkidle')
+    await page.locator('#log-foo').click()
+    expect(lastLog === 'bar').toBeTruthy()
+    // change page
+    await page.locator('#to-hello').click()
+    await page.locator('#log-foo').click()
+    expect(lastLog?.includes('.foo is not a function')).toBeTruthy()
+    await page.locator('#log-hello').click()
+    expect(lastLog === 'world').toBeTruthy()
+  })
+
   it('client-fallback', async () => {
     const classes = [
       'clientfallback-non-stateful-setup',
diff --git a/test/bundle.test.ts b/test/bundle.test.ts
index 427b1aa80e..f601691038 100644
--- a/test/bundle.test.ts
+++ b/test/bundle.test.ts
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ describe.skipIf(process.env.SKIP_BUNDLE_SIZE === 'true' || process.env.ECOSYSTEM
 
   it('default server bundle size', async () => {
     stats.server = await analyzeSizes(['**/*.mjs', '!node_modules'], serverDir)
-    expect(roundToKilobytes(stats.server.totalBytes)).toMatchInlineSnapshot('"61.9k"')
+    expect(roundToKilobytes(stats.server.totalBytes)).toMatchInlineSnapshot('"61.8k"')
 
     const modules = await analyzeSizes('node_modules/**/*', serverDir)
     expect(roundToKilobytes(modules.totalBytes)).toMatchInlineSnapshot('"2286k"')
diff --git a/test/fixtures/basic/pages/wrapper-expose/page.vue b/test/fixtures/basic/pages/wrapper-expose/page.vue
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..10b564e0c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/fixtures/basic/pages/wrapper-expose/page.vue
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<template>
+  <div>
+    <NuxtPage ref="page" />
+
+    <button id="log-hello" @click="logHello">
+      hello
+    </button>
+    <button id="log-foo" @click="logFoo">
+      foo
+    </button>
+  </div>
+</template>
+
+<script setup lang="ts">
+const page = ref()
+
+function logFoo () {
+  page.value.pageRef.foo()
+}
+
+function logHello () {
+  page.value.pageRef.hello()
+}
+</script>
diff --git a/test/fixtures/basic/pages/wrapper-expose/page/another.vue b/test/fixtures/basic/pages/wrapper-expose/page/another.vue
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b8b7d185e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/fixtures/basic/pages/wrapper-expose/page/another.vue
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<template>
+  <div>
+    <p>
+      hello
+    </p>
+    <NuxtLink id="to-foo" to="/wrapper-expose/page">
+      to foo
+    </NuxtLink>
+  </div>
+</template>
+
+<script setup lang="ts">
+
+function hello () {
+  console.log('world')
+}
+
+defineExpose({
+  hello
+})
+</script>
diff --git a/test/fixtures/basic/pages/wrapper-expose/page/index.vue b/test/fixtures/basic/pages/wrapper-expose/page/index.vue
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b42c8e9d39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/fixtures/basic/pages/wrapper-expose/page/index.vue
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+<template>
+  <div>
+    <p>foo</p>
+    <NuxtLink id="to-hello" to="/wrapper-expose/page/another">
+      to hello
+    </NuxtLink>
+  </div>
+</template>
+
+<script setup lang="ts">
+
+function foo () {
+  console.log('bar')
+}
+
+defineExpose({
+  foo
+})
+</script>