Rep. Gregory Meeks said Wednesday that veteran Rep. John Conyers should step down as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee while the House Ethics Committee probes allegations of sexual misconduct against him.

“I think that he needs to step down and a person should be put up on a temporary or acting basis pending the outcome of the ethics committee,” Meeks told The Post.

“John Conyers is an icon. He’s made America clearly a better place through the fights that he’s done through the civil rights movement and the fights he’s had in congress. And I think that I will always look at him in that regard. But that does not mean when you have allegations that they should not be looked into.”

The Ethics Committee said Tuesday that it had opened an investigation into allegations that Conyers quietly settled a wrongful dismissal complaint in 2015 after he allegedly sexually harassed a staffer, BuzzFeed News reported Tuesday.

Conyers — the longest-serving House member — denied the allegations.

But later Tuesday, a new allegation against him surfaced from a former staffer who also said she was sexually harassed.

Meeks, a Queens Democrat, also said the ethics panel should look into how the settlement was paid from Conyers’ office funds — and that all other similar settlements should be made public.

“I would like to know the amount of payouts that may have been for racism, sexism, for discrimination … I would like to know all of those issues and the public should know all of those issues because it is a public office,” he said.

Both Meeks and Conyers are members of the Congressional Black Caucus.