How to create programmatically a new step type in TestStand (to myTypes.ini)

I need to create a new step type to myTypes.ini file programmatically. I have tried to do it with following steps:
- Get reference to engine
- Load type palette files
- creating new step type (engine.NewSteptype() )
- Inserting new type using TypeUsageList.InsertType method. Problem with this is the first parameter. It excpects it to be in a form of PropertyObject, but engine.NewStepType returns it as a StepType object. If I try to use StepType.AsPropertyObject it returns an error.
How to convert StepType object to a PropertyObject?

And here it is in C++:
TS::IEnginePtr mEngine;
SAFEARRAY * typeList;
TS::TypeUsageListPtr typeUseage;
TS:tepTypePtr stepObj;
mEngine = engine;
mEngine->LoadTypePaletteFiles();
typeList=mEngine->GetTypePaletteFileList();
TS:ropertyObjectFilePtr *rgelems;
SafeArrayAccessData(typeList,(void**)&rgelems);
typeUseage = rgelems[0]->TypeUsageList;
stepObj=mEngine->NewStepType();
TS:ropertyObject *property = stepObj->AsPropertyObject();
property->PutName("TestMe");
typeUseage->InsertType(property, 0, TS::TypeCategory_StepTypes);
rgelems[0]->IncChangeCount();
rgelems[0]->SaveFileIfModified(true);
SafeArrayUnaccessData(typeList);

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