diff --git a/components/lib/panelmenu/PanelMenu.d.ts b/components/lib/panelmenu/PanelMenu.d.ts
index d713bafd1..ccd3967f5 100755
--- a/components/lib/panelmenu/PanelMenu.d.ts
+++ b/components/lib/panelmenu/PanelMenu.d.ts
@@ -228,6 +228,14 @@ export interface PanelMenuRouterBindProps {
      * Submenuicon elemnt binding
      */
     submenuicon: object;
+    /**
+     * Header icon element binding
+     */
+    headerIcon: object;
+    /**
+     * Header label element binding
+     */
+    headerLabel: object;
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/components/lib/panelmenu/PanelMenu.vue b/components/lib/panelmenu/PanelMenu.vue
index a7889a6a5..4ab53e720 100644
--- a/components/lib/panelmenu/PanelMenu.vue
+++ b/components/lib/panelmenu/PanelMenu.vue
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
                                 <span :class="cx('headerLabel')" v-bind="getPTOptions('headerLabel', item, index)">{{ getItemLabel(item) }}</span>
                             </a>
                         </template>
-                        <component v-else :is="$slots.item" :item="item"></component>
+                        <component v-else :is="$slots.item" :item="item" :hasSubmenu="getItemProp(item, 'items')" :label="getItemLabel(item)" :props="getMenuItemProps(item, index)"></component>
                     </div>
                 </div>
                 <transition name="p-toggleable-content" v-bind="ptm('transition')">
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
 import ChevronDownIcon from 'primevue/icons/chevrondown';
 import ChevronRightIcon from 'primevue/icons/chevronright';
 import { DomHandler, ObjectUtils, UniqueComponentId } from 'primevue/utils';
+import { mergeProps } from 'vue';
 import BasePanelMenu from './BasePanelMenu.vue';
 import PanelMenuList from './PanelMenuList.vue';
 
@@ -248,6 +249,22 @@ export default {
         },
         changeFocusedHeader(event, element) {
             element && DomHandler.focus(element);
+        },
+        getMenuItemProps(item, index) {
+            return {
+                icon: mergeProps(
+                    {
+                        class: [this.cx('headerIcon'), this.getItemProp(item, 'icon')]
+                    },
+                    this.getPTOptions('headerIcon', item, index)
+                ),
+                label: mergeProps(
+                    {
+                        class: this.cx('headerLabel')
+                    },
+                    this.getPTOptions('headerLabel', processedItem, index)
+                )
+            };
         }
     },
     components: {