While the Bathurst 1000 is an annual highlight of the Supercars season, come this Friday the famous circuit will host a sprint race round - known as the Bathurst 500 - to begin the 2021 calendar.

It replaces the Adelaide 500, which acted as round one between 1999 and 2020.

It was in 1996 when Bathurst last hosted twin rounds, four years before Davison cut his teeth as a rookie in the Australian Formula Ford Championship.

Davison, who will steer one of the Shell V-Power Racing Mustangs in this year's championship, feels the return of a sprint round has been too long in coming.

"To have two rounds at Bathurst, I think it's awesome. I've been saying it my whole career, we're blessed to have this amazing circuit in our backyard and I think it's such a huge part of our sport," the Shell V-Power Racing driver said.

"It's what our sport is built upon, we should be going there twice a year and I think it's awesome I've got that opportunity while I'm still driving to do the sprint race and the 1000 in the one season.

"Why not make it permanent? That's just a very simple logic. At the end of the day our sport is built on Bathurst, it's a renowned global circuit and nothing should get in the way of the 1000 and it's importance, but nothing ever will.

"That is the main race but at the end of the day if it's at all possible to go there more than once a year I don't see why we shouldn't be jumping at it.

"We get to attack it in sprint form, go there in true endurance form later in the season and we get the best of both worlds that way."

The Mount Panorama Motor Racing Act 1989 permits just five full track closure events at the circuit each year. For 2021 they are the Bathurst 500, Bathurst 1000, Bathurst 6 Hour, Bathurst International and Challenge Bathurst.

This year the Bathurst 500 is running in place of the Bathurst 12 Hour, an event which normally lures a host of international GT teams but was cancelled due to COVID-19.

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The Bathurst 12 Hour is expected to return next season, but as that event is part-owned and managed by Supercars, it has been suggested both the GT enduro and a Supercars sprint round could be combined into the same event.

Whether or not that happens and Davison gets his wish to race two Supercars rounds at the Mount in the future remains to be seen.

So Davison is focussing on taking the chance while he has it and will be pushing hard to claim a podium in each of the 250km races.

"It will feel a bit strange, we normally have the Bathurst 12 Hour this time of year which I've done on four or five occasions," he said.

"But we're not complaining, it's an amazing track on which to drive the cars and from our point of view the goal is to try and drive fast, qualify well and try and stay there. It's the same principal as a driver and naturally everyone will be hungry to win.

"People will say the aggression rate will be up, maybe it will be if there's more opportunities, but at the end of the day I don't expect it to be hugely different to the 1000."