Sotherton finished fifth in Beijing but moved up after Ukraine’s Liudmyla Blonska and Russian Tatiana Chernova were disqualified for doping, the latter only last year after a sample was re-tested.
"Until I have the medal I don’t really know how I’m feeling," said Sotherton, 41, ahead of the formal presentation at the Team GB Ball.
"The 4x400m medal in the summer was great but I trained as a heptathlete and that’s the medal that I really want and it will mean quite a lot to get it."
Thursday's ceremony was the second time a Beijing medal has been handed retrospectively to Sotherton, who collected her relay bronze last year after Chernova's disqualification.
She also won heptathlon bronze in Athens in 2004.
"It’ll close a chapter of my athletics career," said Sotherton.
"Receiving a medal 10 years after I should have got it is a little bittersweet but it indicates the career I had and it will finally confirm me as a three-time Olympic medallist."
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Ed Osmond)
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