I am afraid the distutils feature freeze prevents us from doing this, even in 3.3.  Remember that Tarek initially moved sysconfig from distutils to the top level, and the removal was reverted alongside other improvements when there was outcry at the distutils changes and distutils2 was started.  We are aware of the discrepancies between distutils.sysconfig and syconfig; for example, the Mac framework stuff for --user (PEP 371) is different, and the docs for sysconfig misleadingly says that the paths are used by distutils.  These will get fixed when I get a chance.  distutils2/packaging exclusively uses sysconfig, no more duplication.