Various single‐stranded and hairpin‐forming DNA and 2'‐O‐methyl‐RNA oligonucleotides bearing a single (2R,3S)‐4‐(methoxyamino)butane‐1,2,3‐triol residue esterified from either O1 and O2 or O1 and O3 were synthesized. Incubation of these oligonucleotides with equimolar mixtures of formylmethyl derivatives of the canonical nucleobases and 2‐methylbenzimidazole under mildly acidic conditions revealed base‐filling of the modified site to be strongly favored by base stacking of a double‐helix, especially an A‐type one. In 2'‐O‐methyl‐RNA hairpin oligonucleotides, base‐filling of the (2R,3S)‐4‐(methoxyamino)butane‐1,2,3‐triol residue with nucleobase aldehydes followed the rules of Watson–Crick base pairing, thymine being the only exception. In single‐stranded oligonucleotides or the Hoogsteen strand of triple helices, both the yield and selectivity of base‐filling were much more modest.