It is expected they will not be freed until the weekend.
The pair has told rescuers they want to walk from the mine, and not be carried out on stretchers.
They will be taken straight to hospital.
The smaller pilot hole in the tunnel is 16 metres in length and will guide the direction of the tunnel that is to be completed.
A larger one metre diameter cutter will soon be hoisted into place to start drilling their tunnel to freedom.
The men were said to be asleep when the pilot hole was completed indicating the drilling had not set off any tremors.
The tunnelling process was expected to take 48 hours but the mine manager, Matthew Gill, says the men will not be rescued until the weekend at the earliest.
Earlier, Australian Workers Union national secretary Bill Shorten said the miners, Todd Russell and Brant Webb, had helped redirect the tunnel's route by taking photos with a digital camera.
"Because the blokes have been able to explain and take photos, they've realigned it. It's got slightly longer to go, but it'll go exactly where the men are which is the ideal outcome."
"The trapped miners have the capacity to say hey this is not working, this is looking a bit too rocky," he said.
The rescue team is now hoping to drill a 16 metre tunnel into the rock, four metres further than first expected so that the miners can be reached from underneath the cage in which they’re trapped.
"I know perhaps it's been slow to people, but not here. It's good progress," Mr Shorten told reporters earlier.
As the work progresses, it is expected a "super sucker" giant vacuum cleaner will be moved in to take away the tailings from the drilled rock.
Hand drills for final phase
Mr Shorten would not speculate on when the men would be freed, but said earlier it could be another 48 hours.
He said hand drills would be used to hack through the final part.
"There might be a crust of hard rock, then hard rock miners may go in using hand drills. They will try to break through the crust," he said.
"Hopefully the men will be able to be taken out through this escape tunnel."
But he said there were other options if the raised borer failed to complete its task, although he would not say what they were.
No help walking out
A co-worker says Mr Russell and Mr Webb do not want to be carried out on a stretcher but hope to walk out on their own two feet.
"They've made that request," said the man, who asked not to be named.
"They will probably stretcher them up the decline and if they are in good enough condition, they'll probably let them walk out of the cage onto the surface.
"I reckon they will let them.”
"It's a pride thing," he explained.
SBS correspondent Vic Caruso says counsellors are offering support to the people of Beaconsfield who are said to have gone through a roller coaster of emotions as they await their escape.
Good spirits
Brant Webb and Todd Russell are entering their 10th day trapped 925 metres underground since a catastrophic rockfall on Tuesday night April 25.
The men are said to be in good spirits and have enjoyed their first solid food in a week, after being passed egg sandwiches and yoghurt.
"They've had egg sandwiches and yoghurt, some small solids, which is obviously a good development," Mr Shorten said.
But it was a far cry from the eggs and bacon the pair has been calling for.
The men had been kept on a strict diet of nutritional drinks and vitamins since rescuers found them alive on Sunday night.
The supplies are being passed through a small pipe, as the miners await rescue inside a small steel cage that saved them from the rock fall that killed their mate Larry Knight.
The miners, who are trapped almost a kilometre underground, have also been given notes from their families, iPods loaded with their favourite music, glow sticks, magazines, blankets, fresh clothes, toothpaste and deodorant.