I have a question about api request and async await

For example, I have a function as such:

export const getTopStories = async () => {
    const response = await instance.get(`/home.json?api-key=${api_key}`)
    const data = response.json()
    return data
}

is response.json() completely necessary here? I think I've also seen it where data is destructured immediately, for example,

export const getTopStories = async () => {
    const {data} = await instance.get(`/home.json?api-key=${api_key}`)
    return data
}

Does the second version work? Are they equivalent somehow?