diff --git a/internal/builders/golang/build_test.go b/internal/builders/golang/build_test.go
index 2bb9f5dcc..99be2c218 100644
--- a/internal/builders/golang/build_test.go
+++ b/internal/builders/golang/build_test.go
@@ -1411,6 +1411,28 @@ func TestWarnIfTargetsAndOtherOptionsTogether(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestInvalidGoBinaryTpl(t *testing.T) {
+	folder := testlib.Mktmp(t)
+	require.NoError(t, os.Mkdir(filepath.Join(folder, ".go"), 0o755))
+	writeGoodMain(t, folder)
+	ctx := testctx.NewWithCfg(config.Project{
+		Builds: []config.Build{
+			{
+				Targets:  []string{runtimeTarget},
+				GoBinary: "{{.Foo}}",
+				Command:  "build",
+			},
+		},
+	})
+	build := ctx.Config.Builds[0]
+	testlib.RequireTemplateError(t, Default.Build(ctx, build, api.Options{
+		Target: runtimeTarget,
+		Name:   build.Binary,
+		Path:   filepath.Join("dist", runtimeTarget, build.Binary),
+		Ext:    "",
+	}))
+}
+
 //
 // Helpers
 //
diff --git a/internal/pipe/build/build_test.go b/internal/pipe/build/build_test.go
index e28112753..bd903ef6b 100644
--- a/internal/pipe/build/build_test.go
+++ b/internal/pipe/build/build_test.go
@@ -570,24 +570,6 @@ func TestPipeOnBuild_hooksRunPerTarget(t *testing.T) {
 	require.FileExists(t, filepath.Join(tmpDir, "post-hook-windows_amd64"))
 }
 
-func TestPipeOnBuild_invalidGoBinary(t *testing.T) {
-	build := config.Build{
-		Builder:  "fake",
-		GoBinary: "testing.v{{.XYZ}}",
-		Targets: []string{
-			"linux_amd64",
-		},
-	}
-	ctx := testctx.NewWithCfg(config.Project{
-		Builds: []config.Build{
-			build,
-		},
-	})
-	g := semerrgroup.New(ctx.Parallelism)
-	runPipeOnBuild(ctx, g, build)
-	testlib.RequireTemplateError(t, g.Wait())
-}
-
 func TestPipeOnBuild_invalidBinaryTpl(t *testing.T) {
 	build := config.Build{
 		Builder: "fake",