Create of testing framework and project as separate

I want to create 2 projects one for the testing framework and another for the actual project.

The idea is like in the testing framework all the Base configurations will be kept like (Logging, Reporting, et)

In the other project, actual test scripts and page objects will be available. So that anyone can use the base framework project can be extended to other projects

How do we achieve this using maven?

When i try with maven modules, it creates nested project (where we cannot separate 2 projects)