diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 153375dca..a467dd941 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ Grigorii Eremeev (budulianin)
 Guido Wesdorp
 Guoqiang Zhang
 Harald Armin Massa
+Harshna
 Henk-Jaap Wagenaar
 Holger Kohr
 Hugo van Kemenade
diff --git a/changelog/8990.bugfix.rst b/changelog/8990.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..12c93f2c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/8990.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+TerminalReporter's ``_locationline()`` will now pass the correct type of input arg to  ``_pytest.pathlib.bestrelpath``. Previously it was passing in ``str`` which raised an exception.
diff --git a/src/_pytest/terminal.py b/src/_pytest/terminal.py
index 8c5be3b78..3e9acb1b4 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/terminal.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/terminal.py
@@ -862,8 +862,10 @@ class TerminalReporter:
                     yellow=True,
                 )
 
-    def _locationline(self, nodeid, fspath, lineno, domain):
-        def mkrel(nodeid):
+    def _locationline(
+        self, nodeid: str, fspath: str, lineno: Optional[int], domain: str
+    ) -> str:
+        def mkrel(nodeid) -> str:
             line = self.config.cwd_relative_nodeid(nodeid)
             if domain and line.endswith(domain):
                 line = line[: -len(domain)]
@@ -873,13 +875,13 @@ class TerminalReporter:
             return line
 
         # collect_fspath comes from testid which has a "/"-normalized path.
-
         if fspath:
             res = mkrel(nodeid)
             if self.verbosity >= 2 and nodeid.split("::")[0] != fspath.replace(
                 "\\", nodes.SEP
             ):
-                res += " <- " + bestrelpath(self.startpath, fspath)
+                fs_path = Path(fspath)
+                res += " <- " + bestrelpath(self.startpath, fs_path)
         else:
             res = "[location]"
         return res + " "
diff --git a/testing/logging/test_reporting.py b/testing/logging/test_reporting.py
index 323ff7b24..bea224510 100644
--- a/testing/logging/test_reporting.py
+++ b/testing/logging/test_reporting.py
@@ -1165,3 +1165,16 @@ def test_log_file_cli_subdirectories_are_successfully_created(
     result = pytester.runpytest("--log-file=foo/bar/logf.log")
     assert "logf.log" in os.listdir(expected)
     assert result.ret == ExitCode.OK
+
+
+def test_locationline_returns_best_relative_location(pytester: Pytester) -> None:
+    item = pytester.getitem("def test_func(): pass")
+    item.config.option.verbose = 2
+
+    tr = TerminalReporter(item.config)
+    fspath = f"{pytester.path}/unique/path"
+    nodeid = "nodeid::test"
+    result = tr._locationline(nodeid, fspath, 1, "domain")
+
+    expected_result = f"{nodeid} <- unique/path "
+    assert result == expected_result